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Consumer technology is changing, and it is doing so very quickly. We’ve gone from using computers to laptops to phones in just a few decades, and everyone seems to be clear about what’s next: glasses. Apple hasn’t confirmed anything yet but many rumors go in this direction and Facebook has directly changed its name to Meta to get closer to this metaverse in which we would enter, mainly, with this type of device.
Microsoft also has its bet, albeit more professional and industrial, with Hololens, and Google has been left to take a step forward. Well, a third step if you count Google Glass and Google Daydream.
Google would prepare glasses for 2024
According to The Verge, different sources indicate that Google is developing the so-called Project Iris, which would be an augmented reality desire, we assume that much more advanced than Google Glass was.
In fact, this is not the first information we have in recent weeks, and at the end of December there was already speculation about this project.
Google’s glasses would use cameras that would record what we see in order to include computer-generated elements in this video feed, merging the two realities, something called augmented reality.
Apparently, there are already prototypes at Google headquarters, which resemble the goggles worn by skiers. Uses android as an operating system, although this may change in the future, and also a Google proprietary processor.
Google doesn’t want to stay out of the metaverse
Room of the Catalan metaverse where a virtual press conference was held
It remains to be seen whether Meta’s commitment to this virtual world full of fun avatars is really the future, but if this or a similar one was, Google doesn’t want to be outdone.
If even Apple is working on something like this, it’s not uncommon for Google to join in, despite the fact that it’s currently a top-secret project that few inside the company are aware.
Despite the secrecy, Google would have worked on it for almost two years, considering that in mid-2020 it bought the Canadian company North, a Canadian company specializing in connected glasses.
Cover photo by Karsten Winegeart edited.
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