{"id":536066,"date":"2026-03-14T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:44:38","slug":"googles-smart-glasses-can-create-fake-photos-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536066\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Smart Glasses Can Create Fake Photos on the Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

As big tech companies ready their excursion into smart glasses, a similar playbook is cementing, and that playbook is looking a lot like the one already set out by Meta and its Ray-Ban-branded AI glasses<\/a>. Hardware from companies like Google<\/a>, and potentially Samsung<\/a> and Apple<\/a>, seems to center around a few main key components. You\u2019ve got cameras, some kind of AI\/computer vision, speakers, a voice assistant, navigation, maybe a screen, and, of course, a streamlined way to use generative AI for faking real photos\u2014wait, what?<\/p>\n

In a recent demo of its upcoming smart glasses, which are set to launch sometime this year, Google\u2019s Dieter Bohn showed off a few capabilities. While most of them are pretty par for the course for the smart glasses field (using computer vision to get directions to places or parse stuff in your surroundings), one feature in particular is not something I\u2019ve seen yet.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video of the Android XR demo we showed last week at MWC \ud83d\ude42 Couple things that stand out to me: how well Gemini can handle vague and complex queries and how the glasses work with apps on the phone. \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n

More details here! https:\/\/t.co\/NKA1rKE1rq<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uXQGwvl7Tr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dieter Bohn (@backlon) March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

By linking the smart glasses to Google\u2019s image generator, Nano Banana<\/a>, Bohn shows how you can instruct them to doctor up an image on the fly. In the video demo, Bohn asks Gemini to take a picture of people in the room using the smart glasses, but then superimpose them over the \u201creally cool church in Barcelona that I forget the name of.\u201d Based on the demo, it seems to do exactly that, taking people in the room and using AI to essentially Photoshop them in, so it looks as though they\u2019re standing in front of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a trick we haven\u2019t seen before. Google has been leaning into AI photography<\/a> for years now with its Pixel phones<\/a>. But it\u2019s a first for the smart glasses form factor, being able to (theoretically) shorten the friction between taking a picture and using AI to alter the ever-loving f*ck out of it. And even if we\u2019ve seen Google lean into AI photography in the past, it\u2019s certainly moving the needle just a bit further in that direction\u2014the direction where whether a photo is real or fake apparently doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoHere\u2019s the faked photo on-demand. \u00a9 Google \/ Screenshot by Gizmodo <\/p>\n

For context, other smart glasses can kind\u00a0of do this already, but not to this degree. For instance, you can ask Meta AI\u2014the AI inside the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses and the Meta Ray-Ban Display<\/a>\u2014to \u201cre-style\u201d a photo to make it more like an oil painting or cartoonish, but it\u2019s not meant for recreating anything photorealistic. Meta\u2019s version is more focused on how to turn your images into AI slop and less fixated on how you can basically fake an image altogether.<\/p>\n

How well Google\u2019s Gemini to Nano Banana pipeline works on smart glasses is a question mark, since this is just a short, well-planned demo. Google even emphasizes that the time in the video is edited, which tells me the command either didn\u2019t work as planned initially or it took too long for Google\u2019s taste. Either way, it\u2019s a new trick in smart glasses that we can look out for, and I guess theoretically great news for anyone who doesn\u2019t care about photos representing reality anymore.<\/p>\n