Google offers more details on their upcoming smart glasses and demos features at Android XR event

Google recently shared new information about their upcoming Android XR devices and software features at an event dedicated to Android XR.

Some information from the event that I found particularly interesting:

* in 2026 Google will release a pair of smart glasses without a display as well as a pair with a monocular display as their answer to the different Ray-ban Meta variants currently out
* it sounds like both first-party and third-party app support will be much stronger than for Meta as the SDK is out and devkits are already being offered to third-party devs
* Google is confident they will be able to offer these with a wider prescription range than Meta's Display glasses
* in 2027 they will release a model with two displays
* Google plans to make WearOS watches able to work to enhance the experience of using smart glasses
* project Aurora done in collaboration with Xreal uses a tethered compute puck and will offer the full Android XR spatial computing environment but uses an optical passthrough similar to currently existing display glasses instead of video from cameras
* Google demoed a new feature that lets users transform any content to 3D in real-time using Android XR

More info:
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-xr-glasses-displays-2026/utm_medium=mastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ANVojMDHY

@augmented_reality@lemmy.world #ar #vr #xr #androidxr #smartglasses #virtualreality

Google offers more details on their upcoming smart glasses and demos features at Android XR event

Google recently shared new information about their upcoming Android XR devices and software features at an event dedicated to Android XR.

Some information from the event that I found particularly interesting:

* in 2026 Google will release a pair of smart glasses without a display as well as a pair with a monocular display as their answer to the different Ray-ban Meta variants currently out
* it sounds like both first-party and third-party app support will be much stronger than for Meta as the SDK is out and devkits are already being offered to third-party devs
* Google is confident they will be able to offer these with a wider prescription range than Meta's Display glasses
* in 2027 they will release a model with two displays
* Google plans to make WearOS watches able to work to enhance the experience of using smart glasses
* project Aurora done in collaboration with Xreal uses a tethered compute puck and will offer the full Android XR spatial computing environment but uses an optical passthrough similar to currently existing display glasses instead of video from cameras
* Google demoed a new feature that lets users transform any content to 3D in real-time using Android XR

More info:
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-xr-glasses-displays-2026/utm_medium=mastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ANVojMDHY

@augmented_reality@lemmy.world #ar #vr #xr #androidxr #smartglasses #virtualreality

A big turnoff is that one needs stupid shit like an FB account to use them, at the moment. Like holy shit, why would I let corpos like meta spy on who I’m talking to or when I’m playing with a wiener (talking about the dog of course, you pervert).

I’ve been wearing glasses for over 20 years and I still find it annoying AF.

We’re definitely going to see something like that with these. Minimap is already there in some. A TODO app will look like the quest log. Eventually when these become true AR you’ll have waypoint symbols, markers above key objects etc.

I will say it will probably be more like VR games where developers need to be a bit more subtle and people sometimes want to put all the HUD elements away to get a more immersive experience.

I’ve been wearing glasses for so long that they just seem like a part of me, really. I’d imagine that’s often the case when you’ve had them all your life.

I hate wearing glasses (I have to) and I already have a phone addiction. I guess “smart” glasses aren’t for me.

can’t we all agree that corporations are evil and bad?

It’s simple: give me a HUD with my vitals and other useful stats like a video game and show me the optimal response to get through dialogue.

This is very true and even extends to there being multiple device categories for rather different use cases like the XReal type display glasses and industrial/military AR visors or passthrough-based stuff like the Apple Vision Pro currently.

I do find it a whole lot more interesting than phones where things are so set now that you don’t see so much new stuff. When it comes to the everyday wearable smart glasses I would personally bet on something more like Meta’s efforts being the most successful in the long run and they’ve certainly had the early successes. I’d love to see some more bulky devices that are more capable, sort of like Inmo Air 3 but while also fully embracing the aesthetic of being a crazy cyberpunk goggle thing and making it a fashion statement.

Nobody Seems to Agree on Smart Glasses

https://sopuli.xyz/post/37627887

Seems like that will be the case at least occasionally and in the beginning. If these become as common as smartphone cameras it might be too difficult to forbid them in some spaces though. Not being able to rely on them everywhere will probably have something to do with it if they don’t.

I want to see more privacy-friendly options as well, Brilliant Labs is the best bet for now I think but this is still so cutting edge stuff that I think it’ll take a while before we’ll see more options for the average user.

Yeah many smart glasses wearers, that actually need glasses, will need to carry around a set of dumb glasses so they can enter secure areas without being blind.

Or else they wear contacts behind their smart glasses?

I really, really want a pair, but not if it’s controlled by meta or google. I would only compromise if rooting and removing the built in spywear was an option.

For your second point I’d say it has been and continues to be taboo but it’s still TBD whether the social pressure against these devices wins out or if people start just accepting it. These devices are less obvious than someone holding a phone to record and they try to reduce the concerns with the indicator light so I’m not sure how things will turn out especially since most people already accepted stuff like always on microphones and their exact location being recorded at all times.

I definitely agree with your first point as far as privacy concerns go. I’ve already seen Meta talk about how they’d like the cameras to just stay on permanently as soon as they have the battery life for that.

1. As long as billionaire tech-bros have a stranglehold on this tech, it will be shit.

2. Taking pictures and video in public is fast becoming taboo.

3. AI is the problem now, not the solution, in many people’s view.

I suppose they’ll keep adding sugar to the shit till enough people eat it, then they’ll take away the sugar.

good, let them keep betting.

I was their target audience. I LOVED my razer anzu.

Then meta fucked Ray-Ban and then ai…

No. Just no.

I bet not