These glasses translate speech in real time and display the result as text in front of your eyes. Whether and when it will appear is still uncertain.
At this year’s Google IO, the company presented some expected products again. Among other things, there was a first look at Android 13, the new Pixel 6a and Pixel Buds Pro. Google CEO Sundar Pichai saved perhaps the most exciting product for last: Glasses that translate and display languages in real time.
The translator glasses look very similar to normal glasses. It is not noticeable th at the wearer has a high-tech device on his nose. The glasses recognize when you are speaking to someone, can translate what is said directly into another language and display it in front of your eyes. This is how you get subtitles in real life.
At the Google IO, we only saw a short teaser video showing the functionality of the glasses in different scenarios. For example, here was a mother with her daughter. The mother speaks Chinese and understands English but does not speak it. The daughter only speaks English. With the help of the glasses, however, the daughter can understand her Chinese-speaking mother.
Even sign language should not be a problem for the glasses. The full recording of the Google event, including the presentation of the glasses at the end, can be found here:
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It is not yet clear which technology the glasses use
Google has not yet commented on the technical details of the innovative glasses. But it should be clear that she has at least a microphone and a camera to hear speech and see other people.
For this purpose, the glasses will also have an AR display in at least one of the lenses so that they can show the wearer the translation. How that will look in practice is difficult to say until we have been able to try the glasses ourselves. In the video above, Google gives at least a foretaste.
Google has not given a release period. We didn’t even get the glasses’ official name. It is ultimately still a prototype that may never appear. This is different with these extended reality glasses, which we also find very exciting:
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What do you think of the translator glasses? Would it apply to your everyday life? Please let us know.
