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Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026 (bloomberg.com) 44

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
Google said it's working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms: one with screens, and another that's audio focused. From a report: The first AI glasses that Google is collaborating on will arrive sometime in 2026, it said in a blog post Monday. Samsung Electronics, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are among its early hardware partners, but the companies have yet to show any final designs. Google also outlined several software improvements coming to Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, including a travel mode that will allow the mixed-reality device to be used in cars and on planes.
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  • I'm assuming they're not actually AI glasses with much in the way of local processing and are merely asking The Cloud.

    • Yes, although it's not like it's constantly streaming your camera to the cloud. These things are basically Bluetooth webcams connected to an app on your phone, so they only send snapshots or short video clips when requested. Local processing is minimal, and if you're offline you can only use basic voice controls to take pictures or record videos.

      • it's not like it's constantly streaming your camera to the cloud

        How do you know that?

        Being from Google, I rather assume the opposite - and that they probably focused their engineering effort to make sure the reduced battery life didn't give their corporate surveillance activities away.

        • Just looking at the technical side, the cost to the end-user of streaming that much data would be exorbitant. Compressed video or even once-per-second snapshots would eat up all the mobile data, and the battery life would be measured in single digit hours.

  • Should be illegal to wear in public. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by oldgraybeard ( 2939809 ) on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:48PM (#65843881)
    Without a signed permission slip from every individual that appears in the cloud loaded video. This is not to help people, this is a vast info harvesting scheme.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Then all government spy cams should be illegal also. Now it's our turn to "spy" on the cops

    • In public for security reasons, we have to allow recordings. My safety is more important to me than your right to secretly visit brothels or Facebook to know where you shop. If you don't want Facebook to use the data then block that, put criminal charges on Zuckerface if he accesses cloud data for advertising -- and handsomely reward whistleblowers. People have the right to record publicly areas outside their home and within their vicinity. Businesses have the right to record their premises and public areas

      • Or pass a law like Germany's, where violating someone's privacy in public (by, say, publishing a recording of them without consent) is either a crime or cause for a lawsuit. Also, limit retention of the recordings for businesses to a specific time period (say 14-30 days) unless they contain evidence of a crime. It should be also up to businesses NOT to allow recording devices ... as in, a bar or club bouncer should be allowed to confiscate surveillance glasses for the sake of the customers' privacy.

        Finall

        • Finally, where do you live that you need to record everything in public to feel "safe" ... maybe you're just a coward or suffer from paranoia.

          50% of homicides go unsolved because of people like you. What's wrong with recording what happens in public? Do shit privately.

          • Maybe the solution to having less violence is regulating the tools of violence (a handgun is basically a point-and-click destructive device) and having a functional society that doesn't create an undereducated underclass with a culture that glorifies violence. The things that many EU countries that ALSO regulate surveillance in public also do. Also, 50% of homicides go unsolved because no one cares - it's dismissed as black-on-black crime or chalked up to gang violence and seen as deserved. There's a lac

            • Yeah a society is more free where its residents are afraid to go out because they can be mugged or killed on the street and the perps walk free because there's no way to track who they are. Drug dealers should have the right to deal in privacy.

    • There is no expectation of privacy in public.

      • That's a very US centric view ... in many EU countries, there VERY MUCH is an expectation of privacy in public. Set up a doorbell camera in Germany that films anything but your own front yard, and enjoy the lawsuits from your neighbors. Store the footage more than 72 hours? More legal problems. It's great ... they take personal freedom seriously. don't just pay lip service to it.

        • >"in many EU countries, there VERY MUCH is an expectation of privacy in public. Set up a doorbell camera in Germany that films anything but your own front yard, and enjoy the lawsuits from your neighbors. Store the footage more than 72 hours? More legal problems. It's great ... they take personal freedom seriously. don't just pay lip service to it."

          Um, that isn't taking personal freedom seriously. That is taking personal PRIVACY IN PUBLIC seriously. Often freedom and privacy are linked. But in your ex

    • There is a balance to be struck here.

      I might feel that I have the right to take photos (or video) of others in public.
      I might also feel that I have a right to a certain level of anonymity in public, without having my goings and doings tracked and published.

      There are good arguments for each point of view.

      The street photographer would rightly explain that we would lose a valid art form if we banned street photography. There are claims that photographic recordings of public areas enhances safety.

      On the other h

    • That got modded "insightful"? Really? It seems wildly out-of-touch. You're already being recorded by cameras almost everywhere you go, and that's not going to become any less common.

  • Go back to 2012-13... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by b0s0z0ku ( 752509 ) on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:08PM (#65843911)
    We need to bring back harasment and mockery of "Glassholes" - remember when Google Glass users were literally shamed out of bars and other public places?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jddj ( 1085169 )

      I remember on my single visit to the Googleplex (on behalf of a F100 company where I worked at the time) meeting someone with Google who was walking around with Google Glass on.

      It made the guy look like kind of a dork, and his smug attitude didn't help the impression. I couldn't have been paid to wear the things in public.

      The general failure of VR and AR headsets to rule the market points the way here, and none of these Silicon valley guys seem to understand: PEOPLE DON'T WANT SHIT ON THEIR FACE.

      It's so si

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jddj ( 1085169 )

        And a quick Revise and Extend:

        My kids each have Meta VR headsets. They're gathering dust. So it's not like we haven't tried some...

      • ... none of these Silicon valley guys seem to understand: PEOPLE DON'T WANT SHIT ON THEIR FACE.

        That's because they're so used to their own shit-eating grins that they think people having feces on their faces is normal.

    • Eventually, you won't be able to tell. Someone will come in wearing glasses, and the tech is going to be too small and streamlined. There are also companies working on embedding augmented reality capabilities in contact lenses fed by tiny cameras placed just out of the field of vision. You'd be able to see them only in very specific circumstances. Power feed is a primary challenge right now, but it's probably not an unsolvable problem.

      • Then it will be time to go after the companies hawking the things, legally or otherwise. Or simply go Cambodian on anyone wearing glasses in public :D

  • Seems like everyone wears contacts, gets lasik, or something?

    • I has to be be your friend circles.

      "According to a survey by The Vision Council, around 75% of Americans need some form of vision correction. Of those, approximately 64% wear prescription eyeglasses." https://www.glasses.com/gl-us/... [glasses.com]

      For France I find ~45% of adults 18-44 y.o. use glasses; and 89% of 55+ y.o. And about 18% of French adults use contact lenses. https://fr.yougov.com/health/a... [yougov.com]

      • "I has to be be your friend circles."

        Yes, they kick over furniture, glasses and little kids, but at least they look good.

    • Seems like everyone wears contacts, gets lasik, or something?

      I'm fine with glasses, which I've worn for most of my life. Don't want stuff sitting on my eyeballs, nor anyone doing any unnecessary surgery anywhere near them. No sirree.

    • I do ... I'm a Luddite, don't want to stick anything in my eye, and don't want surgery on my eye. Besides, I like the look of glasses.

    • I have a combination of prescriptions that mean that I can't use contact lenses. I see quite a lot of people wearing glasses, and Zenni, Warby Parker, and the other online companies have said they sell a decent number of frames with plano lenses (meaning no prescription), presumably for people who want the look.

    • >"Seems like everyone wears contacts, gets lasik, or something?"

      None of those work (or work well) for loss of near vision, which will happen to all of us. And many of us don't want to have to put on and take off reading glasses 1,000 times a day so we get bifocals or progressive lenses and just wear them all day.

      Don't believe me? Get back to me when you are 40 or 50... :)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude ( 79039 )

      Many people and I wear glasses.

  • SO glassholes 2.0?
  • Google Glasses ? No, definitely not.

    Google Glasses with Google AI ? HELL THE FUCK NO !
  • MY prediction is that I will never buy a pair of these from anyone. They are just another over priced 3D TV type product as far as I am concerned.

    • >"MY prediction is that I will never buy a pair of these from anyone."

      Me neither.

      >"They are just another over priced 3D TV type product as far as I am concerned."

      I love 3D TV. And it wasn't over-priced; maybe added 5% to the cost of my TV choice at the time? Totally different thing than being a Glasshole.

      • Yeah, there is just so many TV programs/Movies available for them.
        Even theatres barely have much in 3D either these days.
        Its a novelty, that is all.
  • Just send then straight to landfill. They will end up there in a couple months anyway.
  • ... to be the first not to buy them
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