Google's First AI Smart Glasses Launching This Fall With iPhone Support

[MacRumors]

Google today said that its first "intelligent eyewear" product is set to launch this fall. It is teaming up with Samsung and eyewear manufacturers Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to launch new AI audio glasses.

The glasses will run Android XR, which is Google's platform for smart glasses and AR/VR headsets. There are cameras, speakers, and microphones in the glasses, but there is no display in the lenses.

Google previewed two of the designs coming from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, though there will be other options. Google says the two companies will have "full collections" available when the glasses launch.

The glasses support Gemini AI, with Gemini integrated into all of the available features. Users will be able to say "Hey Google" or tap the side of the frame to bring up Gemini, and Google says the AI can do the following:

• Gives information about what the wearer sees, like reviews for a restaurant nearby, the name of a cloud formation, or details on a confusing parking sign.
• Offer sight-based navigation with turn-by-turn directions. Gemini can add stops or locate nearby locations like restaurants based on user preferences.
• Manage calls, send texts, and summarize messages.
• Listen to music.
• Capture photos and videos and edit them with Google's Nano Banana AI image editing engine.
• Translate speech and writing in real time.
• Complete multi-step tasks like ordering coffee via DoorDash.
• Use apps on a connected smartphone with voice-based commands.

Google says that its upcoming glasses will be able to work with iPhones in addition to Android smartphones.

Apple is working on its own AI smart glasses that are expected to have similar capabilities, but rumors suggest Apple's glasses won't be ready until 2027.

In the future, Google plans to launch "display glasses" that have a small display in the lens to relay information from Gemini, but that product is not coming until later.

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[MacUserFella]

Who is naming their company “Gentle Monster”

 

[Pitogyro]

Couldn’t care less about any of that. I don’t know a single person who enjoys all this AI crap.

 

[Astuces iOS]

AI slop into your face !

 

[london_apple]

Gentle Monster sunglasses are so 🔥 disappointed this is a Google collab though…

 

[Sanlitun]

Looks great.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Couldn’t care less about any of that. I don’t know a single person who enjoys all this AI crap.

I'm not sure who enjoys all of it, but many people find some of it useful.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Glasses like these will be much more useful once they have a small screen in them (like a HUD).

 

[Macalway]

No display in the display

There has got to be a better way to get camera and sound (not that you need this). Maybe a way that people won't sneer at, and isn't horribly uncomfortable looking, not to mention wearing useless lenses like some sort of stage prop.

 

[yellowbunny]

Why, oh why??

 

[locovaca]

Glasses like these will be much more useful once they have a small screen in them (like a HUD).

That’s old news. Google glass came out in 2013.

 

[AppleFan22]

Fantastic. More perv cameras on people's faces. As if Zuckerberg's weren't bad enough.

 

[Rogifan]

Let me guess…these are going to be stupid/creepy as heck until Apple comes out with their version. Then it’s going to be the future of computing.

 

[bryo]

If there is one thing I’ve felt lacking in my life, it’s the ability to DoorDash coffee with my glasses!

 

[DocMultimedia]

Couldn’t care less about any of that. I don’t know a single person who enjoys all this AI crap.

When traveling overseas (I do a lot of it) having AI do translations of text and voice is unbelievably useful.

The ability to just look around and find out how to get from your location to another without pulling out my phone would be great.

With this description of features I'm more interested in these sort of glasses than I was before. Guess I'll wait to see how far back Apple might be in the next few months (of rumors).

AI has been around for a long time, it just depends on how people define it, and what you use it for. It's improving at a rapid pace. I'm learning on a daily basis what it is best used for.

 

[Entilzha]

Surely, SURELY this will succeed where Google glasses failed before.

SURELY.

 

[dominiongamma]

Fantastic. More perv cameras on people's faces. As if Zuckerberg's weren't bad enough.

when Apple does it what will you say ?

 

[Sallah]

So let me get this straight, people are now choosing to wear glasses that allows Google to see everything you see. Like personal information. Sure, that’s a good idea.

 

[BGrifter]

Oh boy, they put AI in the perv goggles. Cool.

 

[BeatsByTim]

A new generation of glasshole.

 

[dominiongamma]

Oh boy, they put AI in the perv goggles. Cool.

Apple’s version is coming too, add Apple to the category then

 

[BGrifter]

Apple’s version is coming too, add Apple to the category then

I’m good with that.

I promise to be similarly revolted if Apple makes crap like this.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Just use your phone.

It’s going to do most all of this and most of it better.

 

[Hogswarts]

You don't want to look "dope". You want to look like a dope.

 

[BeatsByTim]

Slapping people who wear these isn't socially acceptable. So, for the record, I don't think anyone should be doing that. As Michael Jackson once said to Paul McCartney (in the worst song of his career) "I'm a lover, not a fighter!"

Edit: The worst song of Michael Jackon's career. Paul McCartney had some real stinkers.