Smart glasses do not have to be an armed one. Google has it clearer than ever

Goal is marking the way to the market on how smart glasses should be with their collaboration with Ray-Ban. And Google, which has been developing projects from some years and years cardboard VR glasses to a device to Vision Pro (Your project with Samsung and Android XR), it seems to have realized what the winning format is.

In the Google I/or 2025 he has shown us the news in Android XR. Far from helmets, far from devices that we can only use at home for a few hours due to its weight and dimensions. His words make it clear:

“We know that glasses can only be really useful if you want to wear them all day.”

That was the key.

The small format. The glasses, glasses are. And everything else is helmets or devices of augmented/mixed reality for a more complex use scenario: games, video projection or, why not, the complete replace It is not working.

Goal has done it well this year with its Ray-Ban Metaglasses that with the naked eye seem completely normal. Only when we approach them, the cameras system, the LED and the thickness of the Patillas Chivan that we are facing an electronic device.

Gemini see everything. The focus of this I/or has been clear: Gemini wants to be able to see everything. In both Google and iOS, you will be able to see both the content shown by the camera and the content shared through our screen.

The only thing you need are “eyes and ears” so … nothing prevents this concept from taking intelligent glasses.

Not only helmets. Until now, the mixed reality helmets They looked like the only devices capable of showing capabilities beyond the simple: calls and video/photos recording. Google has just demonstrated in the I/O.

Google wants to integrate Gemini into traditional format glasses, so that the wizard is right in our view. The goal? Free ourselves from the mobile and that we can interact with the environment in a much more natural way.

Ten years of work. According to Google, the company has been working for more than a decade on this type of concept for smart glasses. It has only been possible now, with Android XR.

Camera, microphone, speakers and telephone connection. It is all that is needed for Android XR to work together with our smartphone and have access to its applications. Similarly, the most advanced devices will equip a screen on the lens to offer information to the user privately.

What can be done. Batched with the phone, the glasses can already work with Gemini. The idea is clear and Google does not hide it: “Come and hear the same as you.” With Android XR in glasses you can send messages, ask for indications of Google Maps, take photos that will be stored in Google Photos, and even translate a conversation in real time.

With who. The success of Android XR in glasses will depend on Google’s ability to convince its partners. As of today, the company announces collaboration with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to create Style glasses with Android XR.

In “a future”, they hope to collaborate with more partners. Similarly, they claim that collaboration with Samsung will go beyond viewers: the goal is to bring Android XR to traditional format glasses.

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