I hated smart glasses, but Google's Android XR let me see a new future

For 5 minutes on Tuesday, I felt like Benji in the mission: impossible – evil nation. But instead of wearing smart glasses at Vienna State Opera and hearing Tom Cruise, I stood in a 5-by-5-foot wooden shed at Google's I/O Developer Conference with Mithun AI in my ear.

I got to test a pair of Android XR glasses, which looks like a few pointsters from wearing the Revenge of the Nurds. In the right lens, the small white texts displaying time and weather are: 2:24 pm, 73 degrees.

If all this could do smart glasses, I would be happy. But she was just a home screen.

Next, I used prototype frames to take a photo and see a full-fledged preview, which is correct on one of the lenses. It was wild to see a picture together and then the real world through it. Futuristic frame is a very initial prototype of Android XR glasses that is forming in partnership with Google Samsung and Qualcomm.

Almost in every way, these frames look like normal prescription glasses. In fact, Google announced that he would work with Warby Parker (my Go-to-Glass Brand for years) and Swanki South Korean glasses brand's soft monster (wearing Beyonse and Rihanna) when they ship.

Unlike regular glasses, these frames are filled with technology. There is a microphone and speaker that can be used to indicate and listen to reactions for Gemini. On the top edge of the temple, there is a physical camera shutter button. You can interact with the edges of the frame. And glasses are packed with sensors that interpret your movements as input, so that Google Maps, for example, show you directions, no matter what direction you are looking at.

So far, I have invited other smart glasses an annoying for a friend's improvised comedy show. They are not worth the efforts and price. However, this may be a turn. In search of the option of Google Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, Android XR frames are just trying to be interested beyond the initial adoption. During my brief encounter, I left thinking that there is definitely a capacity for extensive appeal here, especially if Google can achieve more people to try them. Control looked comfortable like a natural expansion Android phoneFrom now on, I imagine going to the eye doctor and being asked if you want alternative Android XR and Gemini – the way we are asked now whether we want a coating for blue lights.

The standout feature for me is a small display on the right lens of Google's glasses. But stating how performance on these frames works, defines 1 levels of technical mastery, so I took some help. As the Luke Skyvocker has Yoda, I have Scott Stein of CNET, who have spoken of AR and VR glasses and headset. It is revealed that he was trying to prototype similar to these glasses last year.

Stein told me, “These glasses have a single display in the right lens, which is introduced through a micro LED chip on the hand on a small square patch on the lens glass,” Stein told me.

This performance is the place where magic occurs. Not only can it show an Android XR interface and animation, but it does in color – even with some pictures that I got to take. Apart from this, I was impressed by how UI disappeared when I was not directly using it. Google's Gemini is made in XR, so I can ask my glasses to give more information about whatever I am seeing. In the Liliputian-Size Demo shed, I asked Mithun about some pictures on the wall. I could hear reactions through the speaker that is located in the temple of glasses, but people around me could not hear anything. This definitely made me feel like a detective.

Then I got to try Google Maps. I never knew that it could be so pleasant to get the direction. I saw a circular map with the name of the road and indicates an arrow that I should go in that direction. As I moved forward, the small map turned. It felt like transferring the camera in a video game with a controller to get a better view.

And that was this. I had any initial doubt away for smart glasses. But I have questions. How long does a pair of these glasses last on the same charge? Am I using them as my everyday frame? When I charge them, I should have another regular pair of glasses to wear so that I can see? And how much is a pair going to spend me? Will people walking in the walls increase because they are distracted by whatever they are talking on their lenses? Google has not yet to share with me, so I think we will get more information in the coming months and years.

I spent about 5 minutes in the frame, but if you want to know more, see this more deeply on Android XR by Smart Glasses Expert, Scott Stein, a resident of CNET.