TechVRGoogle Glass is back! Google teases smart glasses among its AI announcementsGoogle teases what looks awfully like a new generation of Google Glass in its latest promo videoWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechVRGoogle Glass is back! Google teases smart glasses among its AI announcementsGoogle teases what looks awfully like a new generation of Google Glass in its latest promo videoWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Google teases what looks awfully like a new generation of Google Glass in its latest promo video
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(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
If you go down toGoogleI/O today, you’re in for a big surprise: a device made for your eyes. Our colleagues at Techradar have spotted something interesting in the promo video for the new Gemini AI features: what appears to be a set of smart glasses.
Could Google Glass be back?
The video section is short and doesn’t cast a lot of light on what we’re looking at, but it does show someone picking up a set of Glass-esque specs before the clip switches to what appears to be the view from their eyes. The wearer asks what they’re looking at, and Google’s AI scans the image of two cartoon cats, one alive and one dead, and concludes: “Schrödinger’s cat.”
Given the wealth of new AI features Google announced yesterday, it would be an odd move for the video to feature a product that Google isn’t working on. So the question is: what is Google working on?
AI is the missing feature Google Glass lacked
We already know thatGoogle and Samsung are working on spatial headset experienceswith a little help from the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform. But that appears to be an AR/VR headset programme rather like theVision Pro, not an AR smart glasses one – andGoogle canned its Iris AR glasses, which were believed to resemble a set of ski goggles, last year. So whatever we’re seeing in the video is neither of those projects.
The glasses in the video look heftier than normal spectacles, but considerably less chunky than any headset design. And given their ability to recognise images, there’s clearly cameras in the frames much like Meta’s smart glasses – although those glasses are one-way only and don’t display any information on the lenses.
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