Google offers more details on their upcoming smart glasses and demos features at Android XR event

Google recently shared new information about their upcoming Android XR devices and software features at an event dedicated to Android XR.

Some information from the event that I found particularly interesting:

* in 2026 Google will release a pair of smart glasses without a display as well as a pair with a monocular display as their answer to the different Ray-ban Meta variants currently out
* it sounds like both first-party and third-party app support will be much stronger than for Meta as the SDK is out and devkits are already being offered to third-party devs
* Google is confident they will be able to offer these with a wider prescription range than Meta's Display glasses
* in 2027 they will release a model with two displays
* Google plans to make WearOS watches able to work to enhance the experience of using smart glasses
* project Aurora done in collaboration with Xreal uses a tethered compute puck and will offer the full Android XR spatial computing environment but uses an optical passthrough similar to currently existing display glasses instead of video from cameras
* Google demoed a new feature that lets users transform any content to 3D in real-time using Android XR

More info:
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-xr-glasses-displays-2026/utm/_medium=mastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w%5C_ANVojMDHY

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