Google is reviving smart glasses with an AI-first strategy, using Gemini as the main interface rathr than treating the device primarily as an AR display. The company is trying to avoid Google Glass's ...

Smart glasses are gaining serious momentum, and Google is emerging as one of the companies driving the category forward. After introducing the Android XR platform for wearable displays in 2024, Google ...

Google’s Android XR documentation details two types of glasses: AI glasses and Display AI glasses with screens. The devices will feature physical buttons for cameras and displays, plus a touchpad for ...

It's been a minute since we last saw Google's prototype smart glasses in action but the tech giant recently held demos for them during MWC 2026. Google's Dieter Bohn showcased a number of features ...

Google has demonstrated how Android XR devices can guide users through a city using floating 3D navigation markers and Gemini-powered voice narration. The demo combines tech from Google’s Visual ...

Despite announcing and showing renders of Samsung’s smart glasses in partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, Google is not showing them at Google I/O. Which is not a huge surprise, I fully ...

Google and XREAL have collaborated on Project Aura, a pair of XR smart glasses that combine features of augmented reality with practical design considerations. With a 70° field of view, six degrees of ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. During Google's two-hour keynote this week, the company spent a generous 12 minutes discussing Android XR and the "Intelligent Eyewear" genre that ...

Almost a year ago today, hardware developer Xreal announced its intention to develop extended reality glasses in conjunction with Google. On Tuesday, those glasses were finally unveiled. As part of ...

Google has released documentation that describes gesture interaction with Android XR devices (headsets and glasses). The OS features a new design language called Glimmer. The hardware design includes ...

The spatial computing experience isn't as immersive as an XR headset, but maybe it doesn't need to be. Reading time 4 minutes I came to Google I/O 2026 to try out Google and Xreal’s “Project Aura” XR ...