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 07:30:00
Augmented World Expo 2025 will draw more than 6,000 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 global exhibitors to its event June 10 to June 12 in Long Beach, California. The speaker lineup includes Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell and Oculus/Anduril founder Palmer Luckey. If the show is any indication, the XR industry isn’t doing so bad. A variety of market researchers are forecasting fast growth for the industry through 2030. Ori Inbar, CEO of AWE, believes that the XR revolution i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 16:00:00
Mawari, which delivers real-time AI-driven immersive 3D experiences, has launched vTubeXR, an extended reality (XR) fan engagement platform enabling immersive 3D VTuber-fan interactions. The vTubeXR platform adds personalization to the way fans interact with their favorite VTubers (which are animated creators on platforms like YouTube) by providing a fully immersive 3D meet and greet experience. Powered by Mawari’s proprietary 3D streaming technology and immersive compute network, vTubeXR offe
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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Putting on Project Moohan, an upcoming XR headset developed by Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm, for the first time felt strangely familiar. From twisting the head-strap knob on the back to slipping the standalone battery pack into my pants pocket, my mind was transported back to February 2024, when I tried on the Apple Vision Pro on launch day. Also: I tried Google's XR glasses and they already beat my Meta Ray-Bans in 3 ways Only this time, the headset was powered by Androi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 09:15:52
Will Google actually stick with XR this time around? Would you believe Google really wants to sell you on its AI? This week, we dive into the news from Google I/O 2025 with Engadget's Karissa Bell. We discuss how Gemini is headed to even more places, as well as Karissa's brief hands-on with Google's prototype XR glasses. It seems like Google is trying a bit harder now than it did with Google Glass and its defunct Daydream VR platform. But will the company end up giving up again, or does it real
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 19:38:32
Xiaomi announced the XRING 01 smartphone processor yesterday, which is the company’s first custom smartphone chipset in years. The processor looks like an absolute beast, but there’s bad news if you want to buy a phone with this chip. Xiaomi confirmed to Android Authority that it “currently” doesn’t have plans to launch devices with XRING chips outside China: Regarding the Xiaomi XRING chipset, Xiaomi currently does not have plans to introduce Xiaomi XRING chips to the international market. T
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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: 2025-06-20 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: 2025-06-22 05:30:07
And that brings us to the third focus for Android, which is the connecting line between all the Android ecosystem products—artificial intelligence. Almost the entirety of Google's keynote was spent on Gemini, the chatbot replacing the 9-year-old Google Assistant in everything from Android Auto and Wear OS, to smartphones and now Android XR. But this is what Samat says makes Android XR unique, as it's the “first Android platform built for the Gemini era.” He went on with a cluster of examples, l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 08:21:34
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Putting on Project Moohan, an upcoming XR headset developed by Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm, for the first time felt strangely familiar. From twisting the head-strap knob on the back to slipping the standalone battery pack into my pants pocket, my mind was transported back to February 2024, when I tried on the Apple Vision Pro on launch day. Also: The best smart glasses unveiled at I/O 2025 weren't made by Google Only this time, the headset was powered by Android XR, Goog
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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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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Putting on Project Moohan, an upcoming XR headset developed by Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm, for the first time felt strangely familiar. From twisting the head strap knob on the back to slipping the standalone battery pack into my pants pocket, my mind was transported back to February of 2024, when I tried on the Apple Vision Pro during launch day. Also: Xreal's Project Aura are the Google smart glasses we've all been waiting for Only this time, the headset was powered by
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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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 01:39:41
One of the biggest reveals of Google I/O was that the company is officially back in the mixed reality game with its own prototype XR smart glasses. It's been years since we've seen anything substantial from the search giant on the AR/VR/XR front, but with a swath of hardware partners to go with its XR platform it seems that's finally changing. Following the keynote, Google showed off a very short demo of the prototype device we saw onstage. I only got a few minutes with the device so my impress
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 00:23:00
Smart eyewear company Xreal is partnering with Google to produce augmented reality glasses that it is calling Project Aura, a new product built using Android XR technology. The AI-powered glasses will use optical see-through technology to enhance the consumer AR experience and will include a widened 70-degree field of view. Demonstrations from the Google I/O event on Tuesday showed Android XR glasses making search queries, superimposing maps into the wearer's field of vision, and translating wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 09:05:28
The tech world has rarely been called stylish. But at Google's annual I/O developers conference on Tuesday, the company took one step into the fashion world -- kind of. The company revealed that the first eyeglass brands to carry Android XR AI-powered glasses will be Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, with more brand partners to be revealed in the future. Android XR is Google's upcoming platform for VR, AR and AI on glasses and headsets. Yes, there was a Superman joke as the company joked that un
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 12:45:12
Xreal, makers of the One Pro glasses, are among the first manufacturers to build around the Android XR operating system. 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 a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 12:45:05
I spoke to smart glasses powered by Google's Gemini AI, and they told me what I was seeing. The AI was able to summarize the page of a book I was reading and identify the location in a YouTube video I was watching. The experience felt like an emerging future where information is easier to access than ever. Right now we may be talking to AI on our phones and PCs, but Google wants it to live on our faces, too. I first tried out Google's new Android XR system last December, and now the company is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:01
Samsung's Project Moohan, a type of headset that looks to rival Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro, was the first device announced that runs Android XR. Samsung plans to launch the hardware this year . Android XR, Google's operating system for these products, was launched last year and is infused with its AI assistant Gemini. Xreal, a Chinese company backed by Alibaba , calls its glasses Project Aura and describes them as a lightweight extended reality — or XR — product. XR is a broad term encompassing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:00
Xreal announced a strategic partnership with Google — built around Project Aura — to expand the ecosystem of spatial computing devices built on Android XR. As part of this collaboration, Xreal unveiled Project Aura at the Google I/O developer conference — Xreal’s next-generation extended reality (XR) device designed specifically for the Android XR platform. Project Aura is the second official device announced for Android XR and marks a major milestone for the platform: the introduction of an o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:01
TL;DR At Google I/O 2025, Google revealed XREAL’s Project Aura as a developer-focused Android XR smart glasses device following Samsung’s Project Moohan. Google and Samsung are also creating a reference hardware and software platform for AR glasses development under the Android XR umbrella. Fashion brands like Gentle Monster and Warby Parker have also partnered with Google to develop stylish smart glasses, though consumer releases remain unclear. It’s been half a year since Google announced A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:32
TL;DR Google showcased new features for Gemini on Android XR devices during I/O 2025, including immersive demos using smart glasses and VR headsets. Smart glasses equipped with a camera, a mic, a speaker, and an optional in-lens display can accomplish voice-powered tasks like navigation, appointments, and translation. Google I/O 2025 has been very eventful, especially for AI fans, as Google’s AI efforts with Gemini took center stage. Google also announced new hardware partners for Android XR,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:26
Late last year Google announced its new extended reality ecosystem, Android XR, designed to go up against Meta Quest and Apple's Vision Pro. Along with that it introduced the first device, Samsung's Project Moohan, a virtual reality-style headset. Now as part of Google I/O, Xreal has unveiled Project Aura, the second official Android XR device. Rather than being a full headset, it's a pair of lightweight see-through "tethered" glasses powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It incorporates
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:29
When Google unveiled Android XR last year, it seemed like a clear response to Apple's Vision Pro: It was a plan for a true mixed reality platform that could easily hop between AR, VR and smart glasses like Meta's Ray-Bans. At Google I/O 2025 today, Google announced the second developer preview for Android XR, and it also showed off a bit more about how it could work in headsets and smart glasses. It'll likely be a while before we see Android XR devices in action, though, as Google also revealed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:08
If Google has its way, the “glassholes” will be mobbing streets in force once more. This time, with Gemini AI in tow, glasses-sporting users will be accessing their apps, reading their texts, and talking to a chatbot hands-free thanks to Android XR—Google’s OS built for virtual reality and augmented reality devices. It’s very pie in the sky, but the company told the assembled crowd at its I/O developer conference Tuesday we won’t have to wait long before we have AR glasses—with or without intern
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:46
We told you Google would be gunning for Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses with its Android XR “spatial computing” platform that was announced last year. At its I/O developer conference today, the tech giant said it’s teaming up with Xreal for a pair of next-gen augmented reality smart glasses called Project Aura. Details are light right now, and Xreal told Gizmodo it won’t be demoing Project Aura at the show, but we do know a few things that should get your gears turning on where things are headed.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:00
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. Google’s second era of smart glasses is off to a chic start. At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced that it’ll be partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to create smart glasses that people will actually want to wear. The partnership hints that Google is taking style a lot more seriously this time a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 17:45:00
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 Google smart glasses era is back, sort of. Today, Google and Xreal announced a strategic partnership for a new Android XR device called Project Aura at the Google I/O developer conference. This is officially the second Android XR device since the platform was launched last December. The first is Samsung’s Project Moohan, but that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 20:30:00
If you're a Google user—and really, show us somebody on the internet who isn't—then today is one of the most important days on the tech news calendar. On Tuesday morning in California, Google will kick off its I/O developer conference with a two-hour keynote address. In that keynote, Google execs will walk through all of the changes coming to the company's biggest products: the Android operating system, the Search experience, the Gemini chatbot, the Android XR face-computing platform, and Googl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 17:00:00
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Google’s annual I/O developer conference is almost here, and all eyes will be on the company’s opening keynote. But for the first time in years, we know there’s little reason to hope for major Android OS announcements, since Google already did that last week. Instead, we’re expecting I/O’s keynote to be (almost) all about AI, though we do know there’ll be at least a little t
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