Here are the 3 Google I/O 2026 Android XR smart glasses announcements I'm hoping to see

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Google I/O is less than a day away, and the annual software showcase would be the perfect opportunity for Google and its partners to showcase their 2026 Android XR tech: the XR glasses we’ve been promised will land this year.

Google isn’t a stranger to smart specs, but since the rapid rise and fall of Google Glass, we’ve seen the likes of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses take the smart specs world by storm, and now the old king wants his crown back. But with Google taking a software-centric approach — letting others handle the hardware — it makes sense that this new generation of smart glasses would land at a software show like I/O.

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