As Apple is working on an analogue of Google Glass five years ago

It revealedThat even in the heyday of the iPod in the Cupertino experimenting with wearable on the head device in the spirit of Google Glass.

"I designed a bunch of prototypes", - said the former senior director of the department for the development and production of Tony iPod Fadell (Tony Fadell), who left Apple in 2008, after several conflicts with Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall. According to him, the essence of the idea was to create a compact device that simulates the feeling of the presence of a movie theater. Ultimately, all development has been discontinued, despite the large number of prototypes: "The most crazy of all the options under consideration were something like Google Glass». Probably, the project was more concerned with entertainment by the iPod, what augmented reality, but it is impossible to predict where the company would lead this idea, if it had been implemented at the level of commercial product.

In addition, Fadell said that Apple studied camcorders and remote control, thinking, "Where else would make a revolution." However, Tony says that these projects were also closed, as for them, the company "did not have time."