Google's First AI Smart Glasses Coming in 2026

[JMalone]

Google Customers in the future:

Google tech support when you lose connection to your virtua-brain:

 

[Karma*Police]

It’s DOA cos Apple will launch the black AVP around the same time.

 

[MallardDuck]

That's just what glassholes need...AI.

 

[ghanwani]

Another product that nobody asked for nor has any use for but they will make it and push it like crazy anyway in the hope that people fall for it (they won't) so they can take surveillance to the next level.

 

[vantelimus]

none of which can then upload the footage anywhere they like.

Actually it can. There is no federal law prohibiting publication of silent video recorded in a place where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy (e.g., a public space, a store floor, parking lot, exterior cameras). Most states allow publication of video recorded in public or semi-public commercial spaces, but ban recording or dissemination from private areas.

There are some exceptions for video used to defame, harass, endanger children, and a couple of other edge cases. In general, the video of you walking down the street would not fall into that category, nor would a video of you wolfing down a Whopper at Burger King. You may not like it, but it isn't illegal.

 

[whatnot]

Actually it can. There is no federal law prohibiting publication of silent video recorded in a place where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy (e.g., a public space, a store floor, parking lot, exterior cameras). Most states allow publication of video recorded in public or semi-public commercial spaces, but ban recording or dissemination from private areas.

There are some exceptions for video used to defame, harass, endanger children, and a couple of other edge cases. In general, the video of you walking down the street would not fall into that category, nor would a video of you wolfing down a Whopper at Burger King. You may not like it, but it isn't illegal.

right, thankfully I'm not subject to federal law, but even if they can, I'm not aware of my local supermarkets posting videos of random shoppers all over, because if they did, there wouldn't be any. and the vast majority of CCTV footage is deleted past whatever timeframe is required by law.

 

[JaydenA]

That's just what glassholes need...AI.

I can make that nightmare worse, they get scarlet-not-scarlet's voice on it, and constantly get her to read the output so they can 'top' any discussion - as they do now with copy/paste "I asked ChatGPT... and it said this"

 

[vantelimus]

right, thankfully I'm not subject to federal law, but even if they can, I'm not aware of my local supermarkets posting videos of random shoppers all over, because if they did, there wouldn't be any. and the vast majority of CCTV footage is deleted past whatever timeframe is required by law.

I guess you've never heard how popular webcams are:

EarthCam - Webcam Network

EarthCam is the leading network of live streaming webcams for tourism and entertainment around the world with 4K streaming technology.

www.earthcam.com

The live Times Square 4k cam is nice. Anyone can add their cam to the Earthcam network. You can even make money streaming your video. You might want to write to that site and give them your opinion of their legality.

Maybe you should scroll some of the video available on social media. There are tons of first-amendment auditors, drone videos, dashcam videos, etc. I really don't understand how any observant person these days could be confused about the legality of filming in public.

 

[whatnot]

I guess you've never heard how popular webcams are:

EarthCam - Webcam Network

EarthCam is the leading network of live streaming webcams for tourism and entertainment around the world with 4K streaming technology.

www.earthcam.com

The live Times Square 4k cam is nice. Anyone can add their cam to the Earthcam network. You can even make money streaming your video. You might want to write to that site and give them your opinion of their legality.

Maybe you should scroll some of the video available on social media. There are tons of first-amendment auditors, drone videos, dashcam videos, etc. I really don't understand how any observant person these days could be confused about the legality of filming in public.

who's confused, some creep in my face is not a drone, a dashcam or some stream for stupid tourists to wave at, it's still a creep with a cam in my face.

 

[brewcitywi]

I’m probably in the minority. But, by pure product potential, I think Apple should have started on glasses after the Apple Watch…instead of Vision Pro and foldable phones. Taking photos and videos from glasses is pretty creepy, but there could be other very helpful features with glasses.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

I have to wonder what type of eye problems might these glasses cause. Some people might not find out until it’s too late. If phones and computer screens cause eye conditions if used too much over the years I would think glasses would be even worse for our eyes.

Same here. I don't have any type of smart glasses, but I have a Quest 3 headset which I sometimes use for about two or three hours, sometimes as a large screen monitor for my Macbook, and less often to view Meta's content (since most of it is junk), and when I take it off, for a while my eyes don't focus as well on the real world, and they feel generally bleary, and my vision seems a little dim. I don't think the screens in the Quest 3 are bright enough to account for this kind of eye strain, so I'm wondering whether it has anything to do with the way these devices trick your eyes/brain into perceiving the virtual screens are at a distance, as well as the simulated binocular vision effect, which leaves out some of the real-world cues we've evolved to rely on for true binocular vision.

 

[cardfan]

Unlike Apple, Google actually has ai to build glasses around. Apples announcements or glasses rumors. Who cares.

 

[Toratek]

I use the Oakley Vanguards for one specific activity- POV analysis of my performance in a specific sport I participate in. I will say that people worried about users “constantly recording video” and routinely violating others privacy don’t really have a clue about how very limited the battery capacity is on these things. I have to shut off just about every LLM and notification feature on the things to manage 7 one-minute videos on a 5 hour competition day with a bit of music between performances. And these are the highest battery capacity of any current product in the space.

I would also say that anyone using this type of device who deliberately defeats the external “camera active” light and uses them for nefarious purposes absolutely deserves criminal prosecution.

 

[Acapulco]

It could be Vision AIR ??