Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Google is getting (back) into the astute glasses game.

At Google I/O connected Tuesday, the institution announced a caller concern with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to nutrient a caller enactment of AI-powered glasses. The institution says that the devices volition beryllium built to brace with Android and iOS devices, and were designed successful collaboration with Samsung. They volition beryllium disposable aboriginal this year, the institution said.

Google is calling the caller devices “audio glasses,” successful that users volition beryllium capable to contented verbal commands to them, and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

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The idiosyncratic simply talks to their glasses (the demo shared connected Tuesday progressive a Googler ordering a java online by simply talking to it), and the device, erstwhile synced, complies.

Google has dabbled successful astute glasses a fig of times implicit the years. It notoriously launched Google Glass years ago, which yet helped spawn the derogatory word “glassholes.”

The smartglasses abstraction has changed a small spot since then, however. Lately, large companies – astir notably Meta — and a tiny service of startups and smaller firms, person invested successful the space.