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

Google has dug again into its previous and launched its newest tackle sensible glasses throughout I/O 2025. Glasses with Android XR brings Gemini AI to sensible glasses due to an expanded partnership between Google and Samsung. These sensible glasses can sync with a smartphone to entry apps, they usually’re outfitted with audio system and an optionally available 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And for people who bear in mind the less-than-stylish outdated Google Glass frames, this iteration appears extra centered on actual world wearability and elegance. Google can also be working with Light Monster and Warby Parker as inaugural companions for offering the frames.

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 offered real-time translation into English. The demo fell sufferer to the curse of AI misbehaving throughout a dwell present, however there was a quick 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 photos she was seeing backstage on the theater and calling up details about the cafe the place she acquired espresso earlier than the present.