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TL;DR Google has revealed a new design language for Android XR glasses with built-in displays.
The design language, called “Glimmer,” relies on neutral elements and an interplay of light colors and shadows.
This implementation goes against the bright and vibrant visuals in Apple’s visionOS.
Google has officially published details about the user experience for its upcoming Android XR glasses. The design team at Google has just revealed “Glimmer,” a library of Jetpack Compose tools that will help developers create UIs for transparent screens, i.e., lenses in smart glasses. David Allin Reese, a senior visual designer at Google, recently explained the fundamentals of this new design in a dedicated blog post.
As we saw in yesterday’s leak, Google is relying heavily on transparent elements. These elements are visually distinguishable from Apple’s visionOS, which is profoundly influenced by tinted and frosted glass and depends on a play of contrast to make elements more visible. In contrast, Google is using the principle of putting the “interface at arm’s length.”
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Instead of mingling with different shades and colors, Google’s approach hinges on shifting the display’s focus and blurring the background to make the lenses’ contents legible, much like we humans do with our eyes. As a result, the elements are text are projected onto transparent screens in a way that they appear roughly a meter away from your face.
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