Google Is Gunning for Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

Smart glasses are hot right now, and Google is poised to turn that temperature up even further. In a very brief teaser on Friday, Google’s President of the Android Ecosystem, Sameer Samat, gave the tiniest of glimmers for what the company may have in store on the smart glasses front. At the end of Google’s I/O edition of its Android Show series, Samat can be seen very coyly taking out a pair of glasses and sliding them onto his face while proclaiming that Google will have “a few more really cool Android demos” in store for viewers who tune into I/O next week. If we’re to read between the very obvious, billboard-sized lines, that means Google is going to show off some smart glasses—and soon. For me, personally, that’s very exciting, but I can think of one company that might not receive Google’s teaser so well. I’ll give you a hint: they own a little social media platform called Facebook. As nascent as smart glasses may be as a device category, they already have a clear poster child, an ... Read full article.