Missed again! Google I/O was not the occasion to announce the launch date of the Moohan project, this headset built by Samsung that runs on Android XR. Google is still content with a release window for this year. However, the company unveiled the first connected glasses equipped with the operating system.
No price and no technical details
Equipped with a camera, microphones and speakers, these glasses work in conjunction with the smartphone. These sensors allow Gemini to have the best possible understanding of the environment; With the frame on the nose, the user has access to their messaging, appointments, real-time translation... All this is reminiscent of Ray-Ban glasses from Meta, but Google has gone a step further by specifying that its own frames can be equipped with an optional screen.
You will be able to see a live route, read new messages, see the latest photos (and take some), consult a translation via subtitles. It is rumored that Meta is working on something similar.
With Glass, Google has some experience of what not to do: peddling a stigmatizing and socially inappropriate product. That's why the Android XR glasses will be manufactured by big names in eyewear, starting with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Other partners, such as Kering Eyewear, will be added to the list. Following the winning strategy initiated by Meta with its Ray-Bans.
Like Android, Android XR is an open platform, which is why third-party manufacturers will be able to use it for their own products. Xreal will therefore offer Android XR glasses called "Project Aura".
The social networking giant is one step ahead of Google, however: at least its glasses are commercially available! The search engine has carefully avoided the subject, as well as the very sensitive ones of autonomy and price.
Source: Google
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