US EditionGlass Redux: Google Aims to Avoid Past Mistakes as It Brings Gemini to Your Face
- At Google’s 2025 I/O developer conference, the company debuted Android XR glasses and headsets integrated with Gemini AI, marking its renewed effort in wearable AI technology.
- This event follows Google’s previous exit from Google Glass in 2023 and arises amid rising competition in AI-enabled wearables from companies like Meta and Apple, with Google aiming to improve style, functionality, and privacy.
- Google’s new XR system, built on the foundation of the popular Android OS and powered by Gemini AI, supports wearable devices such as Samsung’s Project Moohan headset and smart glasses developed in partnership with companies like Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. These devices are equipped with integrated cameras, microphones, speakers, and enable hands-free operation through voice commands.
- The glasses provide real-time information, live language translation, messaging, photo capture, and interactive navigation, with testers already using prototypes and developer tools planned for release later this year.
- Google’s integration of Gemini AI into Android XR wearables suggests a significant step toward more personal, practical AI assistants and indicates ongoing efforts to foster a diverse ecosystem of XR-enabled devices.
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Glass redux: Google aims to avoid past mistakes as it brings Gemini to your face
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Get ready to see Android in a new-ish way. It's been 13 years since Google announced its Google Glass headset and 10 years since it stopped selling the device to consumers. There have been other attempts to make smart glasses work, but none of them have stuck. As simpler devices like the Meta Ray-Ban glasses have slowly built a following, Google is getting back into the smart glasses game. After announcing Android XR late l…
I Tried Google Smart Glasses… AI Gemini Answered After 1~2 Seconds
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Glass redux: Google aims to avoid past mistakes as it brings Gemini to your face - WorldNL Magazine
Project Moohan looks like a traditional VR or AR headset. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Project Moohan looks like a traditional VR or AR headset. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Unlike the Meta Ray-Bans, Google's glasses have a display embedded in the right lens (you can just make out the size and location of the display in Sergey's glasses above). Google Glass projected its UI toward the corner of your vision, but the Android XR specs place the UI right in the mid…
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