Google is expected to debut its AI-powered Android XR smart glasses, rivaling Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. Google first teased the return of smart glasses at its I/O keynote in 2024 (remember Google Glasses?). Last year, the company showed off a Gemini-powered prototype version, which Abrar Al-Heeti, CNET's senior tech reporter, tested at Mobile World Congress. Al-Heeti was especially impressed by the Google Maps demo, which provided directions based on a picture she viewed through the glasses, as well as the ability to look at a vinyl album cover and ask Gemini to play a song from it. Sounds
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Meta Puts Perks Behind Paywalls: New Subscription Tiers Across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp… Here's What to Expect 06:44 What will Google add to the smart glasses market? Google is expected to debut its AI-powered Android XR smart glasses, rivaling Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses . Google first teased the return of smart glasses at its I/O keynote in 2024 remember Google Glasses? . …
… Apple isn't the only one in the glasses race. Meta is already there , and Google's up next . But of all these companies, Apple has the most hardware ready to be interconnected with glasses. …
… These plans appear to function across all of Meta's apps, and the company says it will add extra functionality for Meta glasses users in the coming weeks.
… They're also launching into an established market now, with smart glasses competitors from Meta's collaborations with Ray-Ban , Oakley and more. …
… The idea of generated worlds and creations on the fly gives me metaverse echoes, and for a company like Roblox that's essentially been a metaverse of its own, it makes me wonder when things like this could come to VR headsets like Meta's, or even augmented-reality glasses. …
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… More recently, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Apple's camera-equipped AirPods had reached late testing and could be Apple's first AI wearable, arriving before Apple's rumored Meta smart glasses rival. …
… Kuo also reported that the first Apple foldable will minimize the crease by using a combination of titanium, stainless steel and liquid metal for the hinge. …
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