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I wore Google’s Android XR glasses again – and my limit-testing should scare Meta and Apple

I wore Google’s Android XR glasses again – and my limit-testing should scare Meta and Apple

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. During Google’s two-hour keynote this week, the company spent a generous 12 minutes discussing Android XR and the “Intelligent Eyewear” genre that it encompasses. But when you’ve got hardware partners in Samsung and Qualcomm, and a rich software ecosystem to build around, that’s all the time you really need to send a message. Google is effectively launching three pairs of smart glasses by the end of this year: audio-only models from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, Project Aura with Xreal, and a reference model with a single-view display. Also: Everything we saw at Google I/O: Gemini 3.5, Android XR glasses, Spark, and more I don’t know how much each pair will cost when it eventually hits the market — I’d ballpark something that’s above comfort — and I don’t know how much of its capabilities will change in the months leading up to that. What I do know is that they’re all supercharged by Gemini, and after demoing the latest features at Google …