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<\/a>Image courtesy Google & Samsung<\/p>\nThe new smart glasses from Google and Samsung come in two styles: one made in collaboration with eyewear brand Warby Parker and another made in collaboration with Gentle Monster. Last year Google reportedly invested $100 million in Gentle Monster<\/a> as part of its growing smart glasses ambitions.<\/p>\n Google and Samsung say the glasses are designed to work as a companion device to a mobile phone\u2014similar to Meta\u2019s smart glasses\u2014suggesting it will have limited capabilities when worn by itself. The companies say the glasses will work with both Android and iOS phones, though it\u2019s likely that some limitations may exist on iOS.<\/p>\n As part of the announcement, the companies offered a tease of the device\u2019s capabilities:<\/p>\n Users can access navigation assistance by simply asking Gemini with their voices, receive personalized suggestions such as a nearby coffee shop on their walking route, or even place an order for pickup. Users can also receive summarized notifications for important texts and add events to their calendars. Additional features include real-time translations with audio that matches the speaker\u2019s voice, as well as the ability to translate text on menus or signs in the user\u2019s line of sight. Working seamlessly within the Galaxy ecosystem, the device helps users easily manage everyday tasks or effortlessly capture photos, all without taking their phone out.<\/p>\n On stage at Google I\/O, the company showed that some requests (like ordering food from a restaurant) pass the request to Gemini on the user\u2019s phone, which actually navigates the Doordash app by itself to place the order. It\u2019s unclear how widespread this \u2018Gemini app control\u2019 capability will be, but it could be a huge breakthrough for the usefulness of AI through smart glasses and beyond.<\/p>\n Pricing and detailed specs have not been announced at this time, though the companies say the Google and Samsung smart glasses will launch this Fall \u201cin select markets.\u201d<\/p>\n My Take<\/p>\n Meta has already been seen to double-down on its smart glasses business after seeing greater than expected adoption, and this announcement of new smart glasses coming from Google and Samsung shows a growing belief in head-worn devices as the ideal place to capitalize on increasingly useful AI agents that have motivated the tech sector in recent years.<\/p>\n While the initial focus is on audio as the primary output modality of these glasses, Google has already confirmed its intentions to also bring smart glasses with displays to market, though it\u2019s unclear if that will happen in 2026 or beyond. Adding a display to smart glasses vastly increases its range of uses, but adds significant cost and UX complexity. Meta even saw the need to pair its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses with a neural control band to make it easier for users to control the glasses.<\/p>\n I find it interesting that Google and Samsung were ready to show the design of these upcoming smart glasses but haven\u2019t actually given them a proper name yet. Perhaps they are aiming to call the glasses by a combination of the company name and the corresponding eyewear brand, ie: Samsung Warby Parker glasses and Samsung Gentle Monster Glasses (like Meta has done with the \u201cMeta Ray-Ban\u201d glasses and \u201cOakley Meta\u201d glasses).<\/p>\n Interestingly, the announcement accompanying this news doesn\u2019t include any mention of \u201cAndroid XR,\u201d which tells us that Google is likely to position smart glasses separately from more immersive and interactive AR glasses like those coming from XREAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been nearly 14 years since Google introduced its first pair of smart glasses, Google Glass. Equipped with significantly more advanced AI capabilities and a form-factor that looks much closer to actual glasses, this era of smart glasses has a much better chance of taking off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google and Samsung today gave the first official glimpse of an upcoming pair of smart glasses which are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,60,80,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-457226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Image courtesy Google & Samsung<\/p>\n