You Can Get Google's New Smart Glasses Next Month. I've Tried Them Out - CNET
In Gentle Monster’s hallucinatory showroom, I stared up at four robotic heads turning and talking inside floating spheres. I listened to them speak different languages. All of them were translated in my ears, on the fly, as I wore a pair of Gentle Monster smart glasses — “Intelligent Eyewear” codeveloped by Google and Samsung that will finally arrive Dec. 10. They’ll be Google’s first pair of smart glasses since its Google Glass days more than a decade ago, and they’re landing at a time when public opinions on AI, smart glasses and data privacy couldn’t be more heated.
Google’s return to smart glasses has been promised for nearly two years, but the first waves of actual prescription-ready eyewear are only now rolling in nearly at year’s end, an unusual time for a product launch. Really, it feels more like a kickoff for efforts that will continue next year, as...
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