However we might have written off Google’s Glasses too quickly — as a result of Google simply revealed a new prototype pair in a blink-and-you-missed-it second at Google I/O.
Within the warmth of the second, I assumed the Googler merely donned a pair of regular glasses earlier than pulling out their smartphone at 1:30 within the Undertaking Astra demo video beneath. However no, these frames are thick.
There’s even slightly picture-in-picture second the place you’ll be able to see them sporting the glasses. Right here it’s zoomed in:
As soon as the glasses are on, the Googler is utilizing them, not their Pixel telephone, to ask questions and get solutions hands-free.
Are these simply repurposed Undertaking Iris prototypes? They appear related sufficient, however the ones that Google prominently confirmed off in its 2022 video had flat nostril bridges. The brand new nostril bridge is curved.
Google didn’t inform my colleague David something about these glasses in our Undertaking Astra interview, however the firm doesn’t precisely appear to be hiding them, both. Within the YouTube description for the Undertaking Astra video, Google says the second chunk of the demo is operating on “a prototype glasses system.”
