Google may have ditched its plans to release a consumer version of Google Glass for now, but the company is still sticking with the technology, according to the company’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. 

It was only earlier this year that Google shut down the Google Glass Explorer program, moved the Google Glass project out of its Google X labs, and made Tony Fadell — head of the Nest division at Google — its new strategy head. As Schmidt revealed to The Wall Street Journal, the project has been put under Fadell’s watch to “make it ready for users.”

Schmidt further said that Glass is a long-term project for Google, just like self-driving cars, and things like these “take time.”

“It is a big and very fundamental platform for Google,” Schmidt said. “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.”

Google is still working on a new version of Glass that will hopefully not suffer from the same issues that the current generation model suffered from, including poor battery life.

A report from last month indicated that Google is already working on a new version of Glass with better battery life, display, sound quality and a sleeker design.