Are you ready for Google AI Glasses?
Computerworld.com reported that “Silicon Valley is abuzz with chatter about Google’s upcoming AI glasses. The trigger was a big announcement on The Android Show on December 8. The company announced that its first AI glasses will be developed in collaboration with partners like Warby Parker, Samsung, and Gentle Monster, and should launch next year.” The December 12, 2025 article entitled " Will Google get smart glasses right this time?” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4105099/will-google-get-smart-glasses-right-this-time.html) included these comments:
Google is planning two categories of smart glasses: AI-powered audio glasses and XR (extended reality) glasses with displays.
(These products should not be confused with Project Aura, resulting from Google’s partnership with XREAL. Aura glasses are tethered XR glasses with a 70-degree field of view, optical see-through displays, and support for Android XR apps and hand-tracking.)
Google’s approach mirrors Meta’s. That company currently offers its Ray-Ban Meta glasses with no display and Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses that do have a display.
Both companies are working to release two-screen AI display glasses by the end of 2027. The binocular glasses will be able to show stereoscopic 3D images and offer a larger virtual display compared to the monocular version.
Like Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the Google display glasses will offer a single “screen” in the right lens, which will enable visual information like YouTube Music controls, Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation, and Uber status updates, according to Google.
Also like Meta’s glasses, the right temple has a touchpad for controlling the glasses’ features, and voice commands processed by Gemini Live will also control the features and offer up information.
Google’s AI glasses require connections to Android phones. And we can assume that Apple’s unannounced AI glasses will depend on iPhones. It makes sense to look at this category of device in the initial years as peripheral devices to smartphones. They depend entirely on the smartphone’s cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity, location services and hardware, notifications, phone calls and messaging, podcast and other media apps, social network apps, and so on.
All of Google’s glasses will run on the Android XR operating system, which debuted on the Samsung Galaxy XR headset in October.
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