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Samsung and Google unveil AI smart glasses with fashion brands
Two big technology companies, Samsung and Google, are making a new kind of eyeglasses that are smart.
The glasses look like normal glasses, but they can help people with things like directions, translations, and messages.
Samsung and Google worked with two famous glasses brands, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, to make them look nice.
People will be able to get them later this year, though the glasses do not have an official name yet.
The glasses use Google's voice helper, called Gemini, to talk with the wearer.
They can show a person where to find a coffee shop or add events to a calendar.
They can even translate words on signs or menus.
A little light turns on whenever the glasses are recording a video, so people know.
Samsung says the hardest part was making glasses that people would actually want to wear.
Samsung and Google have developed AI smart glasses co-created with eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, due to launch later this year.
The unnamed glasses were showcased at Galaxy Unpacked in London, where Samsung also launched the Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra, Z Flip8 and two smartwatches.
Samsung's James Choi said wearability, not AI, is the biggest challenge, and that engineers asked whether their own daughters would want to wear the glasses.
Features include Gemini voice assistance, navigation, real-time translation, notification summaries, calendar updates and photo capture without removing the phone.
Privacy safeguards include a physical indicator light when the camera is recording and sensors that prevent recording when the glasses are removed or set down.
- Who
- Samsung in partnership with Google, Qualcomm, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, with Samsung's corporate EVP James Choi leading the XR team
- What
- New AI smart glasses offering voice assistance, navigation, real-time translation and phone-linked features through Google's Gemini
- Where
- London, at the Galaxy Unpacked event
- When
- Shown at Galaxy Unpacked; expected to become available later this year
- Why
- To create a wearable new entry point for mobile AI that people will actually want to wear
Key facts
- Product
- AI smart glasses (no official name yet)
- Developers
- Samsung, Google and Qualcomm, with eyewear by Gentle Monster and Warby Parker
- Availability
- Later this year
- Showcase
- Galaxy Unpacked event in London
- Key features
- Voice assistance, navigation, real-time translation, notification summaries, calendar, photography
- Privacy features
- Physical recording indicator light; sensors block camera when glasses are removed
- Samsung patents
- More than 200 patents filed related to the category
- Also launched
- Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra, Z Flip8 and two smartwatches
Quotes
James Choi
Corporate EVP and head of XR R&D at Samsung Electronics
“The biggest challenge for AI glasses is not AI itself. For AI glasses to become truly mainstream, they cannot simply be smart — they must be something people actually want to wear.”
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