Google’s New Smart Glasses. For Travelers: Live Translation, Navigation
Photo Credit: Google's first smart glasses will be released with eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Google/YouTube
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Google's smart glasses will be a direct competitor to the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, both attempts at building hardware especially for the latest AI.
Google is giving travelers another option for a wearable live translator and personal travel guide. The company revealed more information about its upcoming smart glasses at the I/O developer conference on Tuesday, among a slew of other announcements.
Gentle Monster and Warby Parker will be the first eyewear brands to deploy the tech, which the latter said would be released “after 2025.”
They’ll be a direct competitor to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which recently got a feature for live voice translation along with the ability to act as a tour guide. The company tried smart glasses once before with Google Glass but stopped making them in 2015.
This is also among the latest examples of big tech companies developing hardware with computing power to handle advanced AI. Apple’s latest iPhone, for example, was built with dedicated AI features.
And OpenAI on Wednesday said it is acquiring io, a device company
