Google offers travelers another option for wearable live translations and personal travel guides. The company revealed more about its upcoming smart glasses at an I/O developer meeting on Tuesday Many other announcements.
Gentle Monster and Warby Parker will be the first glasses brand to deploy the technology, the latter explain Will be released “after 2025”.
They will be a direct competitor to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which recently won Live voice translation function And can Act as a tour guide. The company has tried smart glasses once before Google Glass But it stopped production in 2015.
This is also one of the latest examples of large tech companies developing hardware with computing power to handle advanced AI. For example, Apple’s latest iPhone is With dedicated AI functions.
Openai said Wednesday it is acquiring IO, a device company co-founded by Jony Ive, who leads the design of the iPhone, Imac and iPad.
Google in December Android Xr was introduced – A glasses operating system and upcoming headphones developed in collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm. It is built by Gemini-powered AI assistants that allow users to control devices through voice and have conversations about sightings.
Google showed off some of the headphones’ travel-related features during Tuesday’s event.
Glasses will be equipped with a camera, microphone and speakers. There is an optional lens display to view information privately. Glasses are connected to the user’s phone and application. Developers can start building applications for the platform later this year.
Glasses: Live Translation
In the middle of Google’s live demonstration, the glasses’ translation feature messed up, but the company has some time to get it right.
During Google demo, one user spoke Hindi and another said Farsi. Everyone speaks a phrase in these languages, and then another uses glasses to treat the English translation as words. The first phrase worked, but then the AI lags and the user ended the demo.
Glasses: Find a place and get a route
Nishtha Bhatia, Google’s glasses and AI product manager, gave a live demonstration Tuesday to show how glasses can help users browse the city.
The demo shows that AI can remember what it sees and answer questions about it later. Glasses can also take photos and videos and save them to the user’s phone.
- Batia: “Gemini, what’s the name of my cup-to-coffee shop before?”
- Gemini: “Well, this is probably in full bloom. As far as I know, this is a vibrant coffee shop on Castro Street.”
- Bhatia: “Can you tell me the pictures of that cafe? I want to check the atmosphere.”
- Gemini: Shows the Bloomsgiving list of Google Maps.
- Batia: “Gemini, tell me what it takes to go here.”
- Gemini: “Now get these instructions. It will take about an hour.” Then, glasses gradually show the 3D map that the user can see through the lens.
- Bhatia: “Continue to invite Diet Ender to the cafe and have coffee at 3pm this afternoon.”
- Gemini: “I’m going to send out an invitation now. Enjoy coffee.” Gemini connects to the calendar to arrange a date.
Moohan Project XR headsets: Travel planning and virtual travel
Samsung’s Moohan project is the first device powered by Android XR, available for purchase later this year. Since last year, developers have been making apps and games for headphones.
It is designed to be like Apple Vision Pro and Metaquest.
The headset has the functionality of virtual reality – meaning that the full vision is virtual and enhances reality, allowing users to view virtual screens in the real world.
With the Google Maps app, users can soar over and through cities in virtual reality and view landmarks as if they were standing on the ground in person. As Google shows: the user can say, “Can you take me to Florence?” The app “transmits” the user there.
The user can then ask, “Can you tell me the immersive video of this place…where can I book a tour?” The device pulls the user to the augmented reality settings to display the search results. Google Demo shows three virtual screens in the user’s living room: Florence map, YouTube search for immersive Florence videos and travel blogs.
Through the Major League Baseball app, users should be able to watch live games while chatting with Gemini.
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June 4, 2025 – New York City
