While Samsung is already deeply in the development of its Apple Vision Android XR rival, Project Moohan (freshly confirmed as launched later this year), Google I / O 2025 has welcomed the news that the South-Korean technology giant is now also responsible for the first pair of intelligent Android Android XR glasses.
The opening speech during the interpretation of this year of the annual Google conference focused on the company's Gemini IA platform, with the promise of a more personalized context on the first applications, tailor-made agency capacities, the progress of its image and video generation tools based on IAMMEN and VEO AI, etc.
But as the presentation ended at its end, Shahram Izadi of the company was released on stage to give us an update on Android XR (XR meaning of extended reality).
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The company's mixed reality platform has already been confirmed as a collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm, but so far, the only physical event in this ever-shown partnership has been the Moohan project.
After an update on Moohan, Izadi then went to smart glasses, detailing Google's approach to this hardware store: “A camera and microphones give Gemini the opportunity to see and hear the world, the speakers allow you to listen to AI, play music or take calls, and a optional The private objective display shows you useful information, just when you need it. ”
After a multimodal live demo (somewhat bumpy) – which included video streaming, music reading, recall, navigation (see above), research and translation – It was then confirmed that Samsung was made responsible for the reference equipment Android XR Smart Lunes, as an extension of his collaboration with Google.
Samsung's intelligent development glasses would already be in the hands (or on faces) of “trust testers”, the developers have promised access to platform development tools later in 2025.
Timing and principles
As exciting as the promise of Android XR smart glasses, they already have strong competition to compete, mainly Meta.
The own efforts of the Rivale Society with AI and its continuous collaboration with Essilorluxottica have already given birth to what is the most widespread and most popular intelligent glasses on the market, in the form of meta-rays, with the promise of new styles of nuances of the Sister Oakley brand in the near future.
Meta glasses are already doing a large part of what Google glasses promise, however, they are built on an extremely different and probably more trembling foundation.
Google's research, productivity and lifestyle research, productivity and lifestyle allowed the company to create what is probably a much clearer and more complete and more personal image of its users, who will not better serve the experience offered by Android XR Smart Glasses, when they end up launching.
It is “when” is the silver lining for Meta, as it is.
Although Google probably has the creation of a more personal and more versatile intelligent glasses product, with an always defined date so that the developers can even start to develop for the platform, it goes without saying that the equipment ready for retail is still far, perhaps with regard to Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.
Meanwhile, new, more advanced meta-band variants (name of the Aperol and Bellini code) which would reduce any potential gap that Google could have created is expected much earlier, rather than later.
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