Well, it did not go well. After the announcement of two -hour nonstop Mithun AI after the announcement on Google I/O, I waited for an hour in the press lounge, so that Android XR Smart Glasses or Samsung’s project Muhan’s project Muhhan mixed reality headset could get a chance to try. Apparently, I went to Android XR Smart Glasses how they compare Meta’s $ 10,000 Orion concepts and Google Glass before. Is Android XR Smart Glasses the holy grave that we are waiting for more than a decade? Unfortunately, Google only tries me for 90 seconds.
I was promised five minutes with Android XR headset prototype and only three minutes of total, one of which the product representative spent me explaining how smart glasses work. In ninety seconds, I was asked to tap on the right side of the glasses to invite Gemini. AI’s star -shaped icon appeared in the right lens (this pair of Android XR Glass had only a small transparent display) slightly below its focal point. I was just instructed to talk to Mithun. I looked around and looked at a painting hanging on the wall and asked what I was looking at, who portrayed it, and asked for the art style. Mithun responded confidently; I have no idea whether the answers were correct. I looked at a bookshell and told Mithun to tell me the names of books- and did it. The representative then used a phone that was added to the glasses to load Google Maps. He asked me to see his feet, and I saw a small part of a map; I looked back, and Mithun drawn a turn-by-turn navigation there.
Then the door in the 10 x 10-foot wooden box was open in the slide, and I was told that I was done. The whole thing ran incredibly, and honestly, I hardly understood how well Mithun did. AI constantly spoke on the representative, while he was explaining to me Android XR Demo. I am not sure it was a wrong activation or bug or what was. When I asked about paintings and books, I did not need to keep tapping on the edge of the glasses – Gemini kept listening and just switched the gear. That part was clean.
Compared to Meta’s Orion Smart Glasses – which are also a prototype concept at this level – Android XR glasses also do not compare. You can see more and with the Orion and through its wavegide lens with silicon carbide. The Orian Instagram and Facebook Messenger run many app windows, and even “Holograffi” games are like Pang The knockoff that you can play another person wearing your pair of AR glasses. Snapchat’s latest AR “glasses” and their super narrow field scenes, I would say that Android XR prototype and its unique performance can actually be better. If you are going to do less powerful hardware, bend in its strength.
For smart glasses for themselves – they felt like any pair thick sunglasses, and they felt relatively light. They slid my nose a bit, but this is only because I have a flat and broad Asian nose. They were not seen slipping from my friend’s nose and Engaged Arch-Namesis, Karisa Bell. (I am just joking; I love Karisa.) There was no way for me to check the battery life in 90 seconds.
So this is my first impression of the first pair of Android XR smart glasses. This is not much, but nothing. A part of me is wondering why hell Google chose to limit the demo time in this way. My Spidy Sense tells me that it cannot be as far as it appeared in the I/O Keenot Demo. What I saw seems like a better version of Google Glass, of course, looks like a super-tiny head-up display with the screen that is located in the center of the right lens rather than above your right eye on the glass. But with only 90 seconds, there is no way for me to create a firm opinion. I need to see a lot, and what I saw was not even a sliver. Google, you got my number – I like!
