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

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

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

When the camera is in-use on Meta glasses, it emits a very bright light. One you can't block or the camera is disabled. I hope these glasses have that same feature.

Considering that, I fail to see how they are "perv cameras". It is very clear and obvious when they are recording and they don't have the ability to expand out a telescoping lens to get some upskirt pics. They only can see what you're directly looking at and what people would see you're looking at.

 

[macduke]

I’m just going to say it: People who wear cameras on their face are psychopaths. Go touch grass.

Not everything is a content opportunity, and people are creeped out when you’re talking to them. We just are. Nobody likes having a camera aimed at them when they’re trying to have a genuine conversation. It lowers trust and makes us anxious and wary of your intentions.

 

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

I’m just going to say it: People who wear cameras on their face are psychopaths. Go touch grass.

Not everything is a content opportunity, and people are creeped out when you’re talking to them. We just are. Nobody likes having a camera aimed at them when they’re trying to have a genuine conversation. It lowers trust and makes us anxious and wary of your intentions.

Unless the light is on, the camera is not recording. And no you can't just simply block the light with sharpie or whatever, as the camera is disabled then.

So you're paranoid if you think that way.

I don't own smart glasses. But I also think the fear mongering around them is ridiculous. Calling people psychopaths for wearing glasses says more about you than them.

 

[zenmacx]

Like other technologies and products AI equipped glasses and other devices have pros and cons.

What's concerning is users who rather naively tout only the advantages they find interesting or useful. Casting side healthy skepticism of potentially nefarious behavior of said AI is a risky choice.

The layman has yet to be exposed to the many downsides that are revealed with only the most basic research into AI's capabilities. The potential of this rapidly advancing technology is yet to be fully discovered.

There's an expression many are forgetting... buyer beware.

 

[Karma*Police]

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.

Exactly. Notice how there are fewer people on here saying that foldable phones are stupid and useless now that it seems almost certain that Apple will release a foldable iPhone. These people will say… but, but Apple’s display has a slightly less visible crease and it was worth waiting over half a decade for and they’d gladly pay over $2,000 for that “innovation” 😂

 

[alexta6]

They failed once a decade ago. I wouldn't be surprised they will fail again!

 

[BillyJoeJimBob]

Most will hold out for the contact lens version.

 

[ChrisMac47]

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

I find these camera-equipped glasses very spooky. Who would knowingly interact with a person wearing these glasses? By the time to finish your conversation it could be uploaded to their social media page, to get them more clicks.

Has life come to this?

 

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

I find these camera-equipped glasses very spooky. Who would knowingly interact with a person wearing these glasses? By the time to finish your conversation it could be uploaded to their social media page, to get them more clicks.

Has life come to this?

Only if you ignore the very bright light they emit while recording and decide to continue interacting with a person who is recording you without consent.

 

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

What's concerning is users who rather naively tout only the advantages they find interesting or useful

What's concerning is users who rather naively speak of only the disadvantages they find alarming. If they only did a bit of research they'd see a lot of their concerns are actually baseless.

 

[Ctrlos]

Funny how the most 'advanced' Smart Glasses are all from companies that stand to gain a lot of money hoovering up all the data of exactly where you've been and what product's you've glanced at the longest....

 

[yapofire]

So, almost all of the features already available in ear-buds then

 

[NastyMatt]

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

They exist - https://www.evenrealities.com/

I am really interested in the Even Realities for the teleprompter feature, plus, no camera!

 

[vantelimus]

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.

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

Sergy is sitting somewhere saying "See, I wasn't full of s#!+ in 2013".

 

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

So, almost all of the features already available in ear-buds then

What are you talking about?

 

[kotaKat]

So....assault? Great choice.

It's just a little pepper spray followed by some black spray paint to the face. No biggie.

 

[MilaM]

I find these camera-equipped glasses very spooky. Who would knowingly interact with a person wearing these glasses? By the time to finish your conversation it could be uploaded to their social media page, to get them more clicks.

Has life come to this?

I also find them very spooky. Recording unsuspecting persons in public for personal gain is just creepy, and I hope it will not become normalized.

 

[CooperBox]

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.

Is slapping Paul McCartney for some alleged 'real stinkers' really socially acceptable.....?😉

Regardless, I’ll stick with my current pair of glasses which frighten the life out of the mother-in-law. So they get my vote!

 

[Ctrlos]

These glasses have their entire business model upside down. The future of connectivity is not via the web or via satellite but via mesh, decentralised P2P data exchanges that happen outside the traditional pipeline due to device penetration. Think PictoChat, Find My or Sidewalk. This takes us away from superfluous internet communities and back into our physical ones. Localised renewables are already going this way and will only accelerate the process.

In any case if we want to take our future back from conglomerates but still enjoy the benefits of it we need to sideline them completely. I want smart glasses that pull in data from the IOT sensors all around me and in my car and parse it for me. I want smart glasses that let me glance at a friend waving at me on the other side of the street and see a social post ping over in AR that broadcasts directly from them to the people in their circle as and when they see them IRL. I don't need the internet for a restaurant menu when my glasses pull it from their location as I walk towards it. A localised personal LLM is at my beck and call and nobody elses.

This mesh net will become engrained in everything we build and do. It will pull us away from screens and back into the real world. It will get us engaging in our local communities again. We will still need companies to build the products, but a common platform will allow anyone to do so and hobbyists to cobble their own.

 

[nexx27]

Would never buy google products again. They always enter and leave the market leaving you at bay

 

[neuropsychguy]

They exist - https://www.evenrealities.com/

I am really interested in the Even Realities for the teleprompter feature, plus, no camera!

That’s an interesting option that I’d seen some online chatter about, but I’m waiting for one of the big companies (Apple in particular). That’s mainly for longer term support and interoperability.

 

[boswald]

I know there's better use cases for these to everyone but perverts and stalkers, but I still don't trust them. I shouldn't have to check people's faces for a light before I talk to them. I don't want to be interviewed, I don't want to feel like I'm being interrogated. What happened to just walking up to someone, talking, and REMEMBERING what they say? I don't need some kind of video memento.

EDIT: Also, why do these companies seem to release the same two styles every single time?

 

[Dirk Pieters]

Just use your phone.

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

There is something to be said for not having to pull your phone out of your pocket. The phone will always be there to makes glasses like these work, but the day that Apple sells glasses that allow me to do (almost) all things I use my phone for (when I’m outside of my home), I’m buying them.

Still feels like magic to be able to unlock my car without a fob, just by having a phone in my pocket. It would be nice to have more of that magic when I’m out and about.

 

[Dirk Pieters]

It is going to be a hard sell in many places, like most of the EU. You wouldn't be able to use them in public - taking pictures of people without permission is not allowed, there are some exceptions, such as people crossing the background of a scene when you are photographing, say, a national monument, but generally, if the person is identifiable, you need their permission to take the picture / upload it.

Except, no one does that. Tourists who travel and take pictures in cities they visit put those pictures on Instagram, Flickr, whatever. It’s literally impossible to get the permission from any person who happens to be in that picture.

This entire reasoning that someone wants privacy in public just isn’t there. Cameras film your car, you are being filmed by cameras in shopping malls, in stopping streets, inside stores. They could probably recreate your entire day out in the city based on camera footage.

 

[Dirk Pieters]

I know there's better use cases for these to everyone but perverts and stalkers, but I still don't trust them. I shouldn't have to check people's faces for a light before I talk to them. I don't want to be interviewed, I don't want to feel like I'm being interrogated. What happened to just walking up to someone, talking, and REMEMBERING what they say? I don't need some kind of video memento.

EDIT: Also, why do these companies seem to release the same two styles every single time?

You could just say “no” and walk away when someone asks to talk to you. That’s what I do anyway, because 99% of the time they are either trying to sell me something or they have some beef with something that I don’t care about anyway.

Seriously, just say no.