Google Glass as we know it seems to be dead. Comments made on Google's earnings revealed that at one point the Glass team had to "reset their strategy," but we weren't sure when this happened. A report from the The New York Times sheds more light on the situation, saying the reboot came with the public "graduation" that was announced a few weeks ago. The move put Glass under Nest CEO Tony Fadell's control, and according to the report, Fadell wants to "redesign the product from scratch."

The report quotes an adviser to Fadell as saying, “There will be no public experimentation. Tony is a product guy and he’s not going to release something until it’s perfect.” This matches up with the "graduation" announcement, which ended the Explorer beta test program and said new versions of Glass would be shown off "when they’re ready."

A "from scratch" rebuild sounds like it throws everything we knew about Glass' future out the window. Before the reboot, our understanding was that a new version of Glass was due out in 2015 and that it would use an Intel SoC. A reboot could potentially be a multi-year project. There is very little that Glass does well, so with a reboot, there isn't much to currently work from.

A good analog for Glass is probably Google's other struggling product: Google+. Google+ head Vic Gundotra left Google almost a year ago, coinciding with a change of direction for the social network. Google stopped being as forceful with Google+, and several reports said the division was gutted. In the past year, Google+ has been extremely quiet—the service has had about one minor feature release, and it was barely mentioned at Google I/O 2014.

In short, don't hold your breath for a new version of Google Glass anytime soon.