Published on: 2025-06-04 09:39:05
ZDNET's key takeaways The Viture Pro XR glasses are available for a retail price of $499 in black. The display is larger, brighter, and smoother with the same form factor, fit, and excellent construction. An additional accessory is needed for devices without USB-C and multiple pieces are required for gaming. View now at Amazon Right now, you can save $60 on the Viture Pro glasses on Amazon with the on-page coupon, bringing the price down to $399. After buying the Viture One XR glasses early
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 06:41:00
There have been a plethora of varying rumors for Apple’s next generation spatial computer. Is Apple prioritizing a cheaper model, or going all out with a second generation Pro model? We’ll summarize all of the Vision headset rumors here today. Vision Pro replacement There will be a second generation of Vision Pro in the near future, though it isn’t quite going to be what everyone would’ve expected. Initial rumors for Apple Vision Pro 2 suggested a spec bump, with the product leaping from an M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 05:00:14
June Wan/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans already provide plenty of utility for people with low vision, but the glasses are about to get even better. Also: I've tested the Meta Ray-Bans for months, and these 5 features still amaze me Meta has announced two new accessibility advancements for its smart glasses designed to help users navigate the world around them. The first feature is available now. Meta said users can get descriptive responses about what their glasses see. Meta explained that this feature
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 21:32:26
Apple Glasses, per the latest reporting, are full steam ahead with a targeted launch in 2026. Until now, I haven’t been that excited about the new product, since its rumored features overlap heavily with AirPods and Apple Watch. But there’s one big advantage that’s changing my mind, and it’s something Apple’s other wearables can’t match. Feature overlap between Apple Glasses and current wearables like AirPods Meta has found success with its Ray-Ban smart glasses, leading many to argue that App
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:45:31
This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: surprise Apple Glasses launch timing, iOS 26, HomePad’s arrival, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. Apple Glasses targeting 2026 launch The dream of AR-powered glasses has long been an evident driver of other Apple projects, like ARKit and Vision Pro. But it’s only very recently that the idea of AI smart glasses has seemed to become a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 05:57:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuance Audio hearing glasses are available in two styles and colors for $1,200 at participating retailers. They provide a stylish and discreet way to aid mild to moderate hearing loss. However, they provide six to eight hours of battery life and a three-hour charging period, which might frustrate power users. View now at Nuance Audio Since the US Food and Drug Administration approved a category of hearing aids that can be sold to consumers without a doctor's prescrip
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 21:00:17
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google unveiled a slew of new AI tools and features at I/O, dropping the term Gemini 95 times and AI 92 times. However, the best announcement of the entire show wasn't an AI feature; rather, the title went to one of the two hardware products announced -- the Android XR glasses. CNET: I hated smart glasses until I tried Google's Android XR. Now I see the potential For the first time, Google gave the public a look at its long-awaited smart glasses, which pack Gemini's assistance
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 21:00:00
New technology doesn’t arrive fully formed, I remind myself as I strap on a pirate’s eye patch, then place a heavily modified bicycle helmet onto my head. It isn’t the most glamorous getup. But here, in a small office on an unassuming business park on the outskirts of Cambridge, England, it could be the foundations of something quite remarkable I'm here to meet AllFocal Optics, a startup that has patented a new type of nanophotonic lens with the power to transform everything from virtual and au
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 03:22:48
As a historian of exchange, I am conscious that goods that travel long-distances, are shiny or unusual get all the glory: a lot of history is mundane, low-key and local. Every now and again, though, the glittery, exciting things are important for a reason. A case in point comes from what I think are perhaps the most exciting findings in recent North American archaeology: glass beads, indisputably European, and manufactured in Venice, have been uncovered in pre-Columbian archaeological contexts
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 09:19:00
In a nutshell: Apple is reportedly preparing to launch a pair of consumer-grade smart glasses in time for the 2026 holiday season. The unnamed spectacles will likely include microphones, speakers, and cameras, allowing the wearer to interact with Siri and / or Apple Intelligence using only their voice, capture photos and video, listen to music, place and receive phone calls, receive turn-based directions, and more. With launch just over a year and a half away, one could safely assume that Apple
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 09:10:11
is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years of watching the industry try and shove AI into every form factor you can imagine, we have some
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 09:37:07
In Brief Apple is reportedly looking to release a pair of smart glasses by the end of next year in a bid to compete with Meta’s AI-powered glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta. Apple’s wearable will have all the components one would expect in smart glasses, including a camera and microphone, and will have the ability to analyze what’s going on around it, Bloomberg reported. It will also have Siri, and it will be able to respond to commands like answering phone calls and giving directions. Bloomberg prev
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 22:00:08
For 5 minutes on Tuesday, I felt like Benji in Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation. But instead of wearing smart glasses at the Vienna State Opera and hearing Tom Cruise's voice, I was standing in a 5-by-5-foot wooden shed at the Google's I/O developer conference with Gemini AI in my ear. I got to test out a pair of Android XR glasses that look like something Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds would wear. In the right lens, there's tiny white text displaying the time and weather: 2:24 p.m., 7
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 05:29:11
Apple is in a tough spot. While the company is painfully behind the competition when it comes to getting a solid handle on AI development, it seems to be speeding up the timeline to release its first AI-powered smart glasses. That’s… quite a gamble. The way here You already know the story. After releasing the Apple Watch and adjusting its course to turn it into what it is, Apple went on to make a series of bad bets that didn’t pay off. It swung and missed with the first Apple Vision Pro, it s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:10:50
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple aims to release smart glasses by the end of 2026. This product would be equipped with cameras, microphones and speakers so that a wearer could interact with the Siri voice assistant. The glasses would also support activities such as listening to music, taking phone calls or hearing step-by-step directions to a location. Apple has long been working toward an end goal of true augmented reality glasses , but it has faced several hurdles in getting its AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:08:00
Apple's take on smart glasses could arrive next year, according to a report from Bloomberg on Thursday. While the description of the specs sound a lot like what Meta and Google are doing in that area, Apple has a reputation for fashion-forward and iconic products that could help set it apart as it plays catchup. The glasses are expected to ship late in 2026 with cameras, microphones and speakers, as well as multimodal AI that could respond to user requests via Siri and that can "see" and analyz
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 13:02:58
is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its I/O keynote — a roughly two-hour event with copious references to AI — with its vision for Android XR glasses. That included flashy partnerships with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, as well as the first hands-on opportunity with its pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 17:18:33
Apple is expediting its plans to compete with Meta’s popular Ray-Ban smart glasses. Bloomberg reports today that Apple is now aiming to release smart glasses “at the end of next year.” Simultaneously, the company has dropped its plans to release an Apple Watch with a built-in camera. Apple’s AI smart glasses coming next year The report says that Apple will “start producing large quantities of prototypes at the end of this year.” The glasses will reportedly have built-in cameras, microphones, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 17:55:17
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple is planning to debut its first pair of smart glasses next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. The upcoming glasses will reportedly come with cameras, microphones, and speakers, “allowing them to analyze the external world and take requests via the Siri voice assistant,” Bloomberg says. The glasses would also be capable of taking phone
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 21:47:22
ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Echo Frames (3rd Gen) are a natural way for glasses wearers to control their smart home, and they're available now for $269. The latest model features a lighter build, longer battery life, improved speakers, and new controls that will take some getting used to. While Alexa in your ears is no ChatGPT voice assistant, it's capable enough to answer general questions and complete most smart home tasks. View now at Amazon The headline for this article could've gone
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 01:07:59
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Get ready to see Android in a new-ish way. It's been 13 years since Google announced its Google Glass headset and 10 years since it stopped selling the device to consumers. There have been other attempts to make smart glasses work, but none of them have stuck. As simpler devices like the Meta Ray-Ban glasses have slowly built a following, Google is getting back into the smart glasses game. After announcing Android XR late last year, the first usable devices were on site at
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 21:00:11
I take off my regular Tom Ford prescription frames that help me see and swap them for a pair of Android XR glasses that look like something Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds would wear. In the right lens, I see tiny white text displaying the time and weather: 2:24 p.m., 73 degrees. If this were all that smart glasses could do, I'd be happy. But that was just the home screen. I used the prototype frames to take a photo and then view a full-color preview, right on one of the lenses. It was wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 21:45:08
I’ll be honest with you: I think smart glasses are awesome. I don’t mean to say they work well all the time, or that they don’t do half of what they should do at this stage, or that they don’t need a massive dose of computing power. Those things are all true in my honest opinion. But even despite having to scream at my pair of Meta Ray-Bans to play Elton John this morning, only for them to repeatedly try and play John Prine instead, I love them for one thing: their potential. And Google—if I/O
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 01:12:47
Google on Tuesday announced that it's getting back into the smart glasses game, and co-founder Sergey Brin said that this time will be different. "I've learned a lot," Brin said Tuesday at a fireside chat during the annual Google I/O developer conference. His appearance came after Google announced a partnership with Warby Parker , which saw its stock rise more than 15% after the two companies said they plan to launch a series of smart glasses as soon as next year. The glasses will be built on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 01:00:08
Google I/O is the company’s biggest event of the year. Even the launch of the Pixel 10 series later in 2025 won’t compare in size and scope to I/O. This week, I was lucky enough to attend I/O on the steps of Google’s Mountain View headquarters, and it was a total blast. Unfortunately, people who watch the keynote livestream at home don’t get to experience what happens after Sundar Pichai exits the stage. That’s when I/O gets incredibly fun, because you can wander around the grounds and actually
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 01:49:46
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google unveiled a slew of new AI tools and features at I/O, dropping the term Gemini 95 times and AI 92 times. However, the best announcement of the entire show wasn't an AI feature; rather, the title went to one of the two hardware products announced -- the Android XR glasses. Also: I'm an AI expert, and these 8 announcements at Google I/O impressed me the most For the first time, Google gave the public a look at its long-awaited smart glasses, which pack Gemini's assistance,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 14:06:59
He added that smart glasses can now be far more useful thanks to generative AI. Before augmented reality was ever a thing, there was Google Glass: a much hyped experiment that was ultimately a failure over issues like privacy (and just looking like a dork). At an I/O session yesterday with Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted that he made "mistakes" with Google Glass in several areas. "I just didn't know anything about consumer electronic supply chain chains, rea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 12:45:11
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google I/O 2025, like the few years before it, dove deep into AI and the various ways it's being integrated across the Search giant's products and services. Among the recipients is Android XR, Google's extended reality operating system that underpins the emerging product category of headsets and smart glasses. Also: Here's the Android XR headset that Google and Samsung are releasing in 2025 Android XR was first unveiled last December, but the company mainly covered the general
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 17:17:24
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he “made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass” during an onstage interview at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Brin was a surprise addition to an interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis conducted by Big Technology Podcast’s Alex Kantrowitz. Brin went on to say he “didn’t know anything about consumer electronic supply chains,” or how difficult it would be to build smart glasses at a reasonable price point. The Google co-founder noted he’s a big believer in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 21:06:59
Well, that didn’t go well. After enduring two hours of nonstop Gemini AI announcement after announcement at Google I/O, I waited one hour in the press lounge to get a chance to try out either a pair of Android XR smart glasses or Samsung’s Project Moohan mixed reality headset. Obviously, I went for the Android XR smart glasses to see how they compare to Meta’s $10,000 Orion concept and Google Glass before it. Is Android XR the holy grail of smart glasses we’ve been waiting over a decade for? Unf
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