Google has already terminated its Explorer program and stalled the sale of Google Glass, but if recent reports are to be believed, the Mountain View, California-based tech titan seems to have fresh plans for its controversial wearable technology.

Recently Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal that the Nest division of the company, which develops connected home technology, will now make a decision regarding the future of Google Glass.

According to Christian Today, notwithstanding the censure that Glass infringes upon the privacy of people by creating a "little brother" phenomenon that takes place when a user on the street records others without their approval, Schmidt noted that the technology is just too important to dump. There were rampant speculations that Google was terminating the Glass when the tech titan removed the product from shelves in January. At that time, Google's Next division chief Tony Fadell had said that they would try "to make it ready for users."

Recently, Schmidt told the WSJ, "It is a big and very fundamental platform for Google." He further added, "We ended the Explorer program and the press conflated this into us canceling the whole project, which isn't true. Google is about taking risks and there's nothing about adjusting Glass that suggests we're ending it."

While speaking to the WSJ, Schmidt compared the Google Glass project to the company's investment in autonomous cars. He said that it is an initiative that may possibly take years to perfect, but "there's no question Google is committed."

Schmidt went on to explain, "It's like saying the self-driving car is a disappointment because it's not driving me around right now."

Even as the future of Google Glass remains uncertain, the man who is credited for bringing it back to life is not a stranger to tech development. Before joining the Nest Labs, Fadell spent much of his career at Apple, where one of the executives in charge of Apple's iPod and Special Projects group, and therefore nicknamed as one of the "fathers of the iPod."