Google Glass 2 Secretly Distributed in Workplaces? Get the Details Here! [Report]

Google is quietly distributing a new version of its Glass wearable device exclusively to businesses.

Citing The Wall Street Journal, Forbes reported that the new Google Glass will be pitched to different industries such as health care, energy, and manufacturing, which means that this version will not cater to consumers. With this in mind, Google improved the device's specs to support business use.

The new Glass wearable will reportedly come with a faster Intel processor, enhanced battery life (lasting up to two hours), and developed wireless connectivity, Forbes listed from The WSJ. Aside from these, Google Glass' second version will have a battery pack that the company developed just for magnetically connecting to the device.

"The cube-like glass prism used to project the display into users' field of vision is longer and thinner in the new version. This can be moved vertically as well as horizontally, while the first version offered only horizontal adjustment, one of those people said," Forbes quoted from The WSJ.

In addition, the new version of the gadget is finally hinged, which means that it can fold up just like a real pair of glasses, Ars Technica wrote.

According to 9to5Google, Google is internally referring to the gadget as "Enterprise Edition" or "EE," which is said to have support for 2GHZ and 5GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The news outlet also wrote that the device will be more rugged, waterproof, and will be distributed through the "Glass for Work" program.

Last week, a device called "A4R-GG1" was caught passing through the FCC, 9to5Google wrote. The device wasn't labeled as a smartphone or wearable, but as a Bluetooth device.

Google first introduced Glass, a wearable gadget in the form of optical head-mounted display, back in April 2012, Pocket-lint wrote. In 2013, the Explorer Programme gave buyers a chance to purchase Glass for $1,500. However, the Glass team departed Google X in early 2015, leaving Tony Fadell, the CEO of Google's Nest, to take charge of the project, spurring assumptions that the wearable is dead.

Fadell previously said that the project was "reset" and went to a closed, secretive development from a public beta, Ars Technica wrote. The "Enterprise Edition" was the first word of Glass since its reboot.

Fadell revealed that the company doesn't mind ditching original technologies and designs for the wearable, regardless of how much Google spent on developing the product.

"We've decided to go and look at every detail, have no sacred cows and figure out the way forward," he said at the Google Zeitgeist conference in the U.K., as quoted by Pocket-lint. "I have a really engaged team. They're really excited about the future and expect more things to come soon."