We may have written off Google’s Glasses too soon — because Google just revealed a new prototype pair in a blink-and-you-missed-it moment at Google I/O.
I thought Google killed its augmented reality glasses after they couldn’t live up to the promise of real-time translation. I thought Project Iris was vaporware after the company shed its AR leaders and downsized the division that was reportedly facing internal turmoil. But we may have written off Google’s Glasses too soon — because Google just revealed a new prototype pair in a blink-and-you-missed-it moment at Google I/O.
Are these just repurposed Project Iris prototypes? They seem similar enough, but the ones that Google prominently showed off in its 2022 video had flat nose bridges. The new nose bridge is curved. Google didn’t tell my colleague David anything about these glasses in our Project Astra interview, but the company doesn’t exactly seem to be hiding them, either. In the YouTube description for the Project Astra video, Google says the second chunk of the demo is running on “a prototype glasses device.
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