At this year’s Google I/O, the tech giant demoed its first-ever Android XR-powered smart glasses, and we were quite impressed by what it could do. Like Meta’s much rumoured upcoming smartglasses, Google’s prototype glasses come with a built-in camera, microphone and a small prism in the right lens that displays the time and temperature.
While not much is known about what powers Google’s Android XR-powered smart glasses, an app developer who goes by the name Sayed Ali Alkamel recently shared a photo on Instagram which suggests that the Augmented Reality-powered smart glasses are internally codenamed “Martha”.
The picture also shows off a couple of settings and features the Android XR-powered glasses have to offer. As you can see in the image embedded in the post above, the companion app for these smart glasses has a couple of options named Notifications, Settings and Record your view.
While it is still unclear what the underlying options are, the ‘Record your view’ option is most likely meant to allow the wearer to record whatever they are looking at. As for ‘Notifications’, it looks like the prototype smart glasses will let users quickly catch up with their latest notifications.
From this year’s Google I/O, we know that Google’s Martha smart glasses have a touch-enabled temple, which can be used to wake up Gemini. Similar to the Meta Ray Ban glasses, the multimodal AI assistant can help identify whatever it is you are looking at, get more information about it, and translate conversations in real-time.
However, there is still no news if Martha will remain as a prototype or if Google will make it available to everyone. Talking of Android XR, the first device to use the new operating system might be Samsung’s upcoming Extended Reality (XR) headset codenamed Project Moohan. Speculated to launch later this year in September, the Apple Vision Pro competitor will be powered by Qualcomm’s XR2 Plus Gen 2 chipset.
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