Google I/O 2025: Google Previews Gemini-Powered Android XR Glasses With Live Language Translation Feature

Google is partnering with eyewear brands like Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to develop AI-powered smart glasses.

Written by Nithya P Nair, Edited by Ketan Pratap | Updated: 21 May 2025 09:30 IST

Google I/O 2025: Google Previews Gemini-Powered Android XR Glasses With Live Language Translation Feature

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Google I/O 2025: Google showed how Android XR glasses could be used in everyday situations

Highlights

Google is all set to re-enter the smart glasses market
The glasses can see and hear the wearer's surroundings with Gemini
These smart glasses feature a camera

Google showed off its Android XR Glasses at Tuesday's annual Google I/O Developers Conference in California. Developed through an expanded partnership with Samsung, these AI-powered glasses add Gemini to smart glasses. Google is also working with eyewear brands like Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to design the new smart glasses. They feature a live language translation feature and boast speakers. The glasses can be paired with smartphones to run apps and feature an optional in-lens display for discreet information viewing.

Google Shows Off Android XR-Based Glasses

The Alphabet-owned tech brand outlined its plans for Gemini-powered Android XR smart glasses at the Google I/O 2025. Google is collaborating with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to design smart glasses. Looking ahead, the brand is eyeing to team up with more partners such as Kering Eyewear to expand the range of smart glasses available to users.

These smart glasses feature a camera, microphones, and speakers. They will work with the paired smartphone to provide hands-free access for users. An optional in-lens display discreetly shows helpful information right when users need it. Google states that the Android XR glasses can see and hear the wearer's surroundings with Gemini integration, offering contextual awareness to assist better and remember what matters to the user most throughout the day.

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Google offered a glimpse of how its apps might appear on XR glasses during the event. The preview also showed how Android XR glasses could be used in everyday situations like messaging friends, making appointments, asking for turn-by-turn directions and taking photos, among others. The live translation feature was also demonstrated, where the glasses displayed subtitles in real-time between two people, breaking the language barrier.

Google said that it is developing a unified software and reference hardware platform to empower the ecosystem to build smart glasses. Developers are said to start working with this platform later this year. Google started collecting feedback from trusted testers using early prototypes, with more details about the progress set to be revealed in the coming months.

This move puts Google in direct competition with Meta's Ray-Ban Meta and other smart glasses in the market. Apple is also said to be developing its own smart glasses.

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