I waited an hour to try Google’s smart Android XR glasses and I only had 90 seconds with them

Well, that didn’t go well. After lasting two hours of nonstop twin AI after Message on Google I/OI waited an hour in the press salon to get a chance to try or a pair Android XR smart glasses or The Samsung Moohan project mixed reality headphonesS I obviously went for the Android XR intelligent glasses to see how they compare to Meta’s Orion Orion concept of $ 10,000 and Google Glass Before that. Is Android XR the Holy Grail of smart glasses we have been waiting for for more than a decade? Unfortunately, Google allowed me to try them for 90 seconds.

I was promised five minutes with the Android XR prototype and I had a total of three minutes, half of which spent an explanation for me how smart glasses work. Ninety seconds told me to touch the right side of the glasses to refer to twins. The AI ​​star -shaped icon appeared on the right lens (this pair of Android XR glasses had only one small transparent display) slightly below their central point. I was instructed to just talk to twins. I turned and looked at a picture hung on the wall and asked her what I was looking at, who painted it and asked for the style of art. The twins answered confidently; I have no idea if the answers are correct. I looked at the shelf and asked the twins to tell me the names of the books – and that. The representative then uses a phone that is paired to the glasses to load Google Maps. He told me to look at my feet and saw a small part of a map; I looked back and there twins raised a turn navigation.

Then the door in a 10 x 10 -foot wooden box I was open and I was told I was done. The whole thing was incredibly hasty and frankly, I almost couldn’t even get an idea of ​​how well the twins worked. AI was constantly talking about a representative while he explained to me the Android XR demonstration. I’m not sure if this was a false activation or error or what. When I asked about the painting and the books, I didn’t need to continue to pat side by the glasses – Gemini continued to listen and just switched gears. This part was clean.

Compared to Orion Orion’s smart glasses – which is also a prototype concept at this stage – Android XR glasses are not even compared. You can see more and do more with Orion and through its wavery lenses with silicone carbide. Orion launches numerous apps of apps such as Instagram and Facebook Messenger and even have “holographic” games like Pong Knockoff that you can play another person who wears your own pair of Ar glasses. Against Snapchat’s most “spectacles” and their super -narrow field of view, I would say that the prototype of Android XR and its only display can actually be better. If you are going to have less powerful hardware, lean into its power (s).

As for the smart glasses themselves, they felt like any pair of thick sunglasses and felt relatively light. They slid a little from my nose, but it’s just because I have a flat and wider Asian nose. They seem to not slip out of my friend’s nose and Engadget Arch-Nemesis, Karissa Bell. (I’m just kidding; I love Caris.) I couldn’t check the battery life in 90 seconds.

So this is my first impression of the first pair of Android XR intelligent glasses. Not much, but nothing. Part of me wonders why the hell, Google chose to limit the demonstration time like this. My Spidey Sense tells me that it may not be as far as it appears in the I/O Keynote demonstration. What I saw feels like a better version of Google Glass, certainly, with the screen resembling a super tiny head display located in the center of the right lens instead of your right eye on the glass. But with only 90 seconds there is no way to create a firm opinion. I have to see a lot more and what I saw wasn’t even a sliding slider. Google, you have my number – call me!