With Gemini AI, Android XR Smart Glasses May Prosper Where Google Glass Flopped

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 internal lens displays—on our faces. In a series of video demos, Google showed off how people wearing Android XR glasses might interact with apps such as Google Maps. A user asked their glasses’ Gemini AI chatbot for directions, and the device brought up a small hologram-like map at the bottom of the internal display. In another video, Google proposed Android XR could use Google Translate to detect a language and translate it to English on screen. Users could talk to their glasses to answer a text me ... Read full article.