Gemini is the leading AI model at the moment. Makes sense when google has some much information they can extract from their search engine, email, and youtube. I don't see anyone catching up anytime soon.
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Google's First AI Smart Glasses Coming in 2026
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A lot of these will sell, but they will not replace the smart phone. The main reason that they will not replace the smart phone is because most people will feel anger towards people wearing them. That and the fact that the arms on them are always so large to accommodate the technology and battery that they look like old lady glasses from the 80s.
I have the meta raybands...i bought 2 of them actually after my first pair battery degraded from constant use. I really do want the new Meta Rayband Displays but they are 800 dollars, the frame is thick, and its next to impossable to get them because you have to go do a designated store and try them on first, all this nonsense and i currently dont have the money yet for them.
If google can do the exact same thing at the exact same price and have better 3rd party app support and make them easer to get, i am very curious. Same with apple. Same with samsung. I prefer apple though because im deep into the apple ecosystem, and even if apple just puts out next year the non display verson for 500 dollars...id buy that.
Meta lead the charge here with this, and it be foolish for apple or google NOT to follow but make it their own and apple is best at taking an idea and refining it. They did it with the computer, the smart phone, even the smart watch, why not do it here with smart glasses.
If google can do the exact same thing at the exact same price and have better 3rd party app support and make them easer to get, i am very curious. Same with apple. Same with samsung. I prefer apple though because im deep into the apple ecosystem, and even if apple just puts out next year the non display verson for 500 dollars...id buy that.
Meta lead the charge here with this, and it be foolish for apple or google NOT to follow but make it their own and apple is best at taking an idea and refining it. They did it with the computer, the smart phone, even the smart watch, why not do it here with smart glasses.
Smart glasses would be great as a teleprompter. I have a really hard time remembering lyrics. It would be very useful to load in the lyrics, then AI listens along and displays the next line in the song or speech.
Can someone smarter than me make that happen? LOL.
Can someone smarter than me make that happen? LOL.
As long as companies continue to try to offer alternate solutions to an already answered question these sorts of devices will never take off.
The future of the internet isn't *in here* on some server but out in the real world. Mesh networks, formed organically outside of the internet have the opportunity to free us from screens and reconnect us with our proper local communities. When every device has IOT sensors pushing out local data, AR glasses will become a 'reality browser' that require actual viscinity with full control by the user of what goes where.
Glasses are the catalyst but it is the underlying technology behind features like BitChat, Amazon Sidewalk or FindMy that leverage device penetration that will win out. To replace the phone you have to first make it so people don't need one.
The future of the internet isn't *in here* on some server but out in the real world. Mesh networks, formed organically outside of the internet have the opportunity to free us from screens and reconnect us with our proper local communities. When every device has IOT sensors pushing out local data, AR glasses will become a 'reality browser' that require actual viscinity with full control by the user of what goes where.
Glasses are the catalyst but it is the underlying technology behind features like BitChat, Amazon Sidewalk or FindMy that leverage device penetration that will win out. To replace the phone you have to first make it so people don't need one.
Who even wants "smart" glasses without a HUD?
Who even wants smart glasses anyway? How many different frames do you think they'll offer? Glasses are quite a personal accessory as it changes the most major part of a person's identity: the face.
Who even wants smart glasses anyway? How many different frames do you think they'll offer? Glasses are quite a personal accessory as it changes the most major part of a person's identity: the face.
I understand the privacy concerns but the reality is we're already all being recorded numerous times a day out in public, restaurants, meetings, the mall (including at Apple stores). There are red light cameras, security cameras, and practically everyone else around you already carrying a phone camera.
Just look on YouTube at concert videos, sporting events, "influencer/reality" channels, PoV videos, tourist videos, they all record bystanders that didn't give consent to be recorded. Any privacy concerns about smartglasses should also be leveled at smartphones. The irony is, there's no indication that someone took a photo/video of you, or recorded their conversation, using a smartphone because it can be disguised as them just using or looking at their phone. At least with smartglasses there's an obvious light indicator when recording or taking a photo with the Meta Ray Bans.
Just look on YouTube at concert videos, sporting events, "influencer/reality" channels, PoV videos, tourist videos, they all record bystanders that didn't give consent to be recorded. Any privacy concerns about smartglasses should also be leveled at smartphones. The irony is, there's no indication that someone took a photo/video of you, or recorded their conversation, using a smartphone because it can be disguised as them just using or looking at their phone. At least with smartglasses there's an obvious light indicator when recording or taking a photo with the Meta Ray Bans.
Google glasses were new over 10 years ago. They flopped because people were concerned about the privacy issues of people wearing them and taking pictures in locker rooms and bathrooms. The privacy issues are still there. But for some reason people no longer care.
They also made you look like the borg, and by extension, a dork.
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If you are on the street or can be seen from public, you can have no expectation of privacy. Videoing from a public space is legal. With smart phones everywhere, you should just assume you will be recorded. The problem with glasses is that they make it too easy to violate privacy in non-public places, like locker rooms and bathrooms.
I worked at Google at the time of their original glasses. People were wearing them into the locker rooms until they were banned from private spaces. At the time, I thought it funny that the "Don't Be Evil" people weren't thoughtful enough to take the glasses off without it being made a rule.
Legal =\= ethical. Respect people’s choices to not be filmed. Opt-in, not opt-out.
Simple.
Based on the number of security cameras I pass on my walk to work every day, it's fair to say I opt in just by leaving my house. You're being recorded on the street, and if you're not living with your head in the sand, you know it. You've opted in.
Well, they mostly flopped because they were priced at $1,500 in 2014. That's roughly $2k in 2025 money. Still cheaper than AVP but that's neither here nor there.
The privacy stuff sure as sh** didn't help move units though.
That is quite a bit different than someone recoding you face-to-face in a conversation. I have not opted in to that, and if I see someone wearing smart glasses in that case, I’ll likely refuse to speak to them.
It doesn't matter what you think is courteous. The law says it is legal. There are cameras all over the place. You are videoed both inside and outside of businesses. Virtually every major US city has a network of public and private cameras that are monitored in real-time by the police departments. According to the comparitech website, the city of Atlanta has 60,864 public and private surveillance cameras, which works out to about 1 camera for every 8 people in the city.
I haven't opted-in, until I say that I have opted-in, and I'm still going to refuse to speak with someone wearing smart glasses unless I know and trust them, and even them, I'm going to confirm they aren't recording.
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yay even more d bags filming people without consent to upload to social media......
none of which can then upload the footage anywhere they like.