Although Samsung is already deep in the development of his Android XR-driven Apple Vision Pro-Rivalaal, Project Moohan played (Vers confirmed that he will be launched later this year), Google I/O 2025 played host for news that the South Korean tech giant is now also responsible for Google’s first pair android Xr-driven android andrdoid.
The opening keynote on the display of the annual developer conference of Google, aimed at the Gemini AI platform of the company, with the promise of more personalized context in apps from First-Party, tailor-made agents, progress to his imagen and VEO AI-based image and video generation assistance.
But as the presentation ended, Shahram Izadi of the company got on stage to give us an update about Android XR (XR means extensive reality).
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The mixed reality platform of the company was already confirmed as a collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm, but so far the only physical manifestation of that partnership was once shown Moohan project.
After an update about Moohan, Izadi then went to smart glasses, with details about the approach of Google of such hardware: “A camera and microphones give Gemini the opportunity to see and hear, speakers let you listen to the AI, play music or phone calls and a one optional In-lens display shows you private information, just when you need it ”.
After a (somewhat bumpy) multimodal live -demo – including video streaming, music playing, recall, navigation (see above), search and translation – it was then confirmed that Samsung was made responsible for the Android XR Smart Glass Reference Hardware, as an extension of the collaboration with Google.
The development of Samsung Smart Glasses is said to be already in their hands (or on the faces) of “trusted testers”, where developers later promised access to development tools for the platform until 2025.
Timing and principles
As exciting as the promise of Android XR-driven smart glasses is, they already have a fierce competition to prevent, mainly from Meta.
The own efforts of the rival company with AI and the continuous collaboration with Essilorluxottics have already given a greid to what the most common and controversial smart glasses are already on the market, in the form of the Meta Ray-Bans, with the promise of new styles of Sisters Oakley brand in the near future.
Meta’s glasses already do much of what the Google’s glasses promises, but they are built on a wild other and demonstrably a chakier -based.
The long-standing suite of Google of search, productivity and lifestyle-oriented apps and services has enabled the company to build, which is probably a much clearer and more complete and personal image of its users, who is better only to experience Android XR-driven smart glasses when they ultimately launch.
That ‘when’ is the silver lining for meta, as it looks now.
Although Google probably has a more personal and versatile smart glass product, with a date that is still not set for developers to even develop for the platform, it makes sense that the retail-ready hardware is still a long way, perhaps as far as Google I/O 2026. Google also has consumer parker.
In the meantime, new, more advanced variants of meta-ray-bans (codename Aperol and Bellini) that would limit any potential gap that Google would just have created, expected much earlier, rather than later.
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