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Experience real-time navigation that flows with you as Google unveils Android XR
Smart glasses bring the power of Gemini to your fingertips enabling seamless navigation, installation, guiding, etc.

By Kumar Harshit

on December 13, 2024

Google unveils its newest and most advanced innovation Android XR, catering to the domain of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It combines years of investments and learnings of the field to present people with an immersive and interactive experience through headsets and glasses.  

This brings an inflection point in the interrelation of AI and the real world where machines make life easier, more convenient, and above all lovable in many different ways. 

Preview reveal 

Google has unveiled the preview of its Android XR enabling developers to create apps visualizing the coming-of-age era for AR, VR, and AI. This is also an opportunity for Qualcomm partners like Sony, Lynx, and XREAL to drop their best innovation enriching the domain with the best.  

What will it do? 

As time leaps, the Google Android XR-powered gadgets will be assisting people to gain immersive experience in a virtual environment, keeping the transition from the real world swift and seamless. It will transform the way we watch, work, explore, and many more things. Above all, with Goggle Gemini integrated into the latest launch, a plethora of controls and options coupled with interactive experience would be available to the people making it all sound like Iron Man and Jarvis, right? 

One of the milestone inventions in this regard will be Project Moohan being built by Samsung available for the public by the next year. With this life would be way easier, more immersive, and more convenient to count a few metrics. 

Ways to help you 

Moving further, Google plans to introduce smart glasses equipped with Android XR to enable users to work seamlessly in real life by helping people in situations like navigation, installation, etc. There would be an array of glasses enabling the users to wear them all day and carry them with the least effort.   

“Imagine your glasses showing you the way through digital projection just before your eyes while speakers in your glasses announce you the way, anytime and anywhere. Interesting, right?” Watch here 

These glasses bring the power of Gemini to your fingertips, delivering essential information exactly when you need it. Whether it's directions, translations, or message summaries, you won't need to reach for your phone. Everything is conveniently available in your line of sight or whispered directly into your ear.

Read the latest Update on Gemini here: Meet the multimodal Gemini 2.0 that thinks of itself as highly efficient

Challenges associated 

As technology reaches the inflection point, the lines made by humans will get blurred, and in no time these machines will interfere with the domain of privacy. Above all, with technology like this maintaining Privacy becomes an indispensable challenge. “This will help us create helpful products and ensure we’re building in a way that respects privacy for you and those around you,” Blog by Google said. 

Interested to read more? Read Google unveils Deep Research in Gemini AI to automate research and generate reports in seconds