Google’s brief smart glasses teaser flew under the radar, but it could mean something big

Sensible glasses are all the fad in 2024. Amazon has its Echo Frames, Meta has its Ray-Ban sensible glasses, and plainly new manufacturers are unveiling their sensible spectacles with every new month of the yr. May Google be subsequent?

Google sneakily teased a pair of nondescript sensible glasses at its I/O occasion in Mountain View, California. Throughout an indication of its digicam AI assistant, Gemini Dwell, a video confirmed somebody asking Gemini Dwell questions as they pointed their cellphone digicam round, like what neighborhood they have been in and what objects close by made sounds. 

Then, the speaker requested Gemini Dwell the place she final noticed her glasses. The speaker then picked up the glasses from a desk, put them on, and commenced to immediate the glasses with related questions. The sensible glasses can apparently do all the pieces Gemini Dwell on a cellphone can do.

Gemini Dwell makes use of video understanding capabilities developed by Google DeepMind’s Undertaking Astra. Undertaking Astra ought to play a giant function in these undisclosed sensible glasses, however we can’t know for certain till Google particulars the gadget. 

Sensible glasses are an AI-assisted wearable that may seize images and movies, play music and podcasts, and even reply your most urgent questions, all by means of voice prompts.

My colleague Kerry Wan wrote a glowing assessment of Meta’s Ray-Ban sensible glasses, admitting that he has swapped out his prescription lenses for the AI wearable, and ZDNET’s Prakhar Khanna mentioned that the glasses are his favourite tech product of the yr in a current article.

We do not know far more about Google’s sensible glasses than what’s been pulled from this teaser, however they’re one thing we’ll undoubtedly be conserving an eye fixed out for.