Hands on with Googles Gemini Gemini Smart glasses, Android XR and Project Moohan headphones

I am wearing a couple of glasses with a thick mount in my face. They don’t feel heavy, but they feel thick. Way to a poster of a paintingGirl with a pearl aree“And ask aloud what was so special about it.” A brief answer that details its expert use of the light and color of Johannes Vermeer floats in my ears, and when I ask a follow -up on when it was painted, I quickly hear the same voice say: “around 1665”. I’m not talking to myself, I swear. I am not listening to imaginary voices. No, I am using a prototype of Google’s intelligent glasses, fed by its Gemini voice assistant. The company joked with these smart glasses in its I/O developer conference Earlier this year, which shows a test video for the concept of smart glasses with AI using the name Astra Project. The couple I contemplated and talked with uses of the same Astra technology, but here it has been integrated into a functional product. Although the glasses are still in their development phase, Google plans to launch them at some point in 2025. These smart glasses are a part of Google’s great announcement today: Android XR. This “extended reality” platform marks the tenth year of the Google mobile operating system that expands to new platforms beyond the phones, joining the rows of Wear OS, Google TV and Android Auto. Prepare the stage for a new wave of Virtual and augmented reality headphones and glasses with a personalized version of Android running on them.

Glass, a decade later

I remember seeing the first Google Glass demo In my university bedroom, really an iconic moment In Google I/O 2012where people parallel to the Moscone Convention Center with Smart Glasses Cyborg that transmitted videos of their approach through a call of meeting places. These smart glasses that work with Android XR do not have so much fanfare Original Vision of Glass. But Google is also in a very different place as a company than in 2012. A judge recently ruled that Google Search to be a illegal monopolyasking the company to sell Google Chrome. However, Google (with Samsung) now wants to be he Platform for the next spatial computing wave. VR has also had a rocky path due to Empty Consumer Interestand given Google’s history of Kill projectsIt is difficult to obtain if a facial computer platform that requires a special (and expensive) hardware will meet the destination of so many applications and services that before. Izadi says that the focus of the platform helps in that sense: “I think that once it is established as a vertical of Android, we are not going to leave soon, so it is a guarantee that we can give.” The great bet seems to be around Gemini and AI. Ah, and the synergy between Google and Samsung. As Kihwan Kim, executive vice president of the Samsung Spearheading Moohan project, “is not just about some teams or companies that do this, this is different.” He is starting completely from scratch, how AI can affect virtual reality and the AR. ” job.