Google showed sophisticated AR goggles that may never leave the laboratory

All the usual suspects in Big Tech are engaged in a Not so secret weapon race To be the first to develop glasses with a massive market extended reality. We already know that goog TED2025 ConferenceAnd we can now say that this on the XR – Aka “Extended Reality” – which can help us escape from the tyranny of the Overlarge VR headphones.

Shahram Izadi, Vice President and General Manager of the XR on Google Strode on the TED stage, which initially looked like a typical mantle and too big-PAIR of glasses (consider the huge and uncommon for Meta, as well as unraveling Orion smart glasses). But they were Google’s XR glasses and Isadi claims he showed him his speech notes to him while he was talking.

The glasses had a microphone, a camera and speakers to collect as much information as possible. Google’s first XR device By Google Glass There is a “lens display” that Isadi held next to the camera for a few seconds, marking “very, very small.” This may indicate the idea that Google is experimenting with wave -shaped glasses presented in devices like the most rayene glassesS The glasses themselves use Android XR, Google’s Homegrown OS for advanced reality devices.

Google Nishha Bhatia’s product manager showed the crowd what Glasses cameras can show through the built -in camera. She patted one hand on the glasses, which released the typical blue-star logo at the bottom of her display, and after half a second, the AI-Toku chat, it seemed ready to offer an eternal haiku for the collected audience with their “faces of all Agro.” Twins can translate a text that he sees in different languages, although Isadi suggested that the function could lead to mixed results. The same camera can also analyze text and graphics and make it more modest soundbits.

Isadi and Bhata also showed the memory feature that allows AI to recall the things he saw through the camera in the recent past. This is close to what Google DeepMind has been demonstrated with Project Astra Last year. Google slowly adds Astra features, Including photos and video recognitionTo the Gemini Live Chatbot interface and it seems that the company seeks to integrate similar features of an upcoming AR goggles pair.

Glasses should have more opportunities to connect to your smartphone and “access all your phone apps”. Still, the real killer feature is a connection with your other Google apps. Bhati asked the glasses to look at a recording from rapper Teddy floats and play a song. The glasses opened music on YouTube and played the requested song. We are already enjoying the Ray-Ban metals well enough for their solid speakers without needing a pair of headphones, so it’s not a good idea from Google. What was even worse was that the display inside the glasses could work with Google Maps by offering a semi-wooden image of Google Streetview for navigation.

Google has been Work behind the scenes of AR glasses for several yearsEven after the death of Google Glass. It is curious that the couple shown in TED may not be sold under Google’s own banner. Search giant works hand in hand with Samsung on him Moohan project Intelligent glasses by activating the Android XR device. Google showed Samsung’s prototype handset on the TED2025 stage. From what we saw from the fly, which may be First -class deviceThe headset will Act a lot like today’s Apple Vision ProBut with more twin features.

Samsung also greatly hinted that it works on a a separate pair of smart glasses, But we doubt that Google showed this week is what’s wearing, it will arrive later this year. Korean publication Etnews (Read with machine translation) The upcoming device may not have a display or buttons last month. Instead, he will rely on a speech microphone and gesture control camera.

Meanwhile Meta can also be Working on an expensive pair of glasses With a small screen dedicated to the application shelf at the bottom of the right lens. The display is what will really put the glasses “Austrated Reality” in addition to the audio focused glasses we have seen so far. To part, Google will need to figure out how to use a bigger display while balancing the life of the battery and the weight of the glasses. But if it happens, we can finally put our arpisters without having to run a heavy handset over our eyes.