What you need to know
- Google teased a new pair of smart glasses that will be able to live translate languages on the fly.
- These new glasses look just like a regular pair of glasses with no obvious “smart” styling that smart glasses users have become accustomed to.
- No release date or price has been announced just yet.
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It’s been a long time since Google Glass was officially launched, but it looks like the company is officially working on a brand new pair of smart glasses with Google Assistant baked right inside. Google teased the tech in that infamous “one more thing” moment at the end of its main Google I/O 2022 keynote address, showing off a pair of smart glasses that looks anything but what folks have come to expect. Google shied away from using the name Google Glass in the teaser and, if anything, these look a lot more like Focals by North, which makes sense since Google acquired that company nearly two years ago.
While there are many types of smart glasses on the market, Google’s latest development could be a hybrid of what has come to be known as “smart assisted reality glasses” rather than a pair of full-fledged AR glasses. The difference here is that, at least from the teaser, it looks like Google’s new pair of smart glasses could primarily be used for audio functions, including language translation via a built-in Google Assistant. Google also announced at I/O 2022 that Google Translate would support 24 additional languages, building excitement for the possibilities of these glasses.