We tried on Google’s prototype AI smart glasses

Proof that there’s a display.

Here successful sunny Mountain View, California, I americium sequestered successful a teeny-tiny box. Outside, there's a agelong enactment of tech journalists, and we are each present for 1 thing: to effort retired Project Moohan and Google's Android XR astute glasses prototypes. (The Project Mariner booth is possibly 10 feet distant and remarkably empty.)

While thing was going to bargain AI's spotlight astatine this year's keynote - 95 mentions! - Android XR has been generating a batch of buzz connected the ground. But the demos we got to spot present were notably shorter, with much guardrails, than what I got to spot backmost successful December. Probably because, dissimilar a fewer months ago, determination are cameras everyplace and these are "risky" demos.

First up is Project Moohan. Not overmuch has changed since I archetypal slipped connected the headset. It's inactive an Android-flavored Apple Vision Pro, albeit overmuch lighter and much comfy to wear. Like Oculus headsets, there's a dial successful the backmost that lets you set the fit. If you property the apical button, it brings up Gemini. You tin inquire Gemini to bash things, due to the fact that that is what AI assistants are present for. Specifically, I inquire it to instrumentality maine to my aged assemblage stomping grounds successful Tokyo successful Google Maps without having to unfastened the G …

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