Samsung Is Working On Xr Smart Glasses With Warby Parker And Gentle Monster

As portion of its Galaxy XR headset presentation, Samsung besides concisely teased different wearable product. It's moving successful collaboration pinch 2 eyewear companies, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, connected AI-powered smart glasses to spell up against Meta's Ray-Ban models, Samsung's caput of customer acquisition Jay Kim announced astatine nan extremity of nan livestream.

"We're besides really excited astir nan AI glasses that we're presently building together pinch Google," Kim said. "We're moving pinch 2 of nan astir forward-thinking brands successful eyewear, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, to present caller devices that fresh into your lifestyle."

Samsung will attraction connected 2 different markets pinch those brands, though some will see "cutting-edge" AI features co-developed pinch Google. With Gentle Monster, it's processing "fashion-forward" glasses that will apt beryllium aimed astatine nan higher extremity of nan market. The Warby Parker collaboration, meanwhile, will output eyewear designed for wide consumers, astir apt astatine a little value point.

Samsung only said that nan AI glasses will bring "style, comfortableness and practicality" to mundane life via Android's XR ecosystem. As we saw successful May pinch Google's prototype XR smart glasses, it will apt employment a Gemini-powered show that will show notifications and mini snippets of info from your apps, for illustration nan euphony you're listening to aliases turn-by-turn GPS directions. It should besides person a built-in camera, of course, on pinch speakers and a microphone.

Design and quality will besides beryllium key, but Samsung has yet to show immoderate images of nan upcoming smart glasses and didn't uncover a merchandise date. However, it will person a reliable climb against Meta's lineup fixed nan Ray-Ban branding and that company's caput commencement connected nan technology. Last week, Meta introduced its Ray-Ban Display model that includes a surface for a existent extended reality experience.