Google demos Android XR glasses at I/O with dwell language translation

Google has dug again into its previous and launched its newest tackle good glasses throughout I/O 2025. Glasses with Android XR brings Gemini AI to good glasses due to an expanded partnership between Google and Samsung. These good glasses can sync with a smartphone to entry apps, they usually’re outfitted with audio system and an elective in-lens show for privately viewing info.

And for people who bear in mind the less-than-stylish outdated Google Glass frames, this iteration appears extra targeted on actual world wearability and magnificence. Google can also be working with Mild Monster and Warby Parker as inaugural companions for offering the frames. In an indicator of how severely Google is taking this challenge, the tech large is committing as much as as a part of the Warby Parker deal. Half of that’s for product growth and the opposite half is for potential fairness funding into Warby Parker.

The spotlight of the I/O presentation of the glasses tried to do a dwell translation. Shahram Izadi and Nishtha Bhatia spoke Farsi and Hindi to one another because the XR frames supplied real-time translation into English. The demo fell sufferer to the curse of AI misbehaving throughout a dwell present, however there was a short second the place every of their glasses did efficiently work as hoped.

Along with that demo, Bhatia additionally showcased how the Gemini assistant may work with the XR glasses, asking it questions on photographs she was seeing backstage on the theater and calling up details about the cafe the place she obtained espresso earlier than the present.

Replace, Might 20, 2025, 5:14PM ET: Added monetary particulars in regards to the Warby Parker partnership.