I Hated Smart Glasses Until I Tried Google's Android XR. Now I See the Potential

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 wild to simultaneously see a photo and then the actual world through it. For 5 minutes, 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 I/O developer conference with Gemini AI in my ear. The futuristic frames are a very early prototype of the Android XR glasses that Google is making in partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm. In nearly ev ... Read full article.