Google is working on a successor to Google Glass

Google is working on a new smart glasses as a successor to Google Glass. The intention is that the glasses will be used for augmented reality, in which a virtual layer is placed over the real world.

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Remember the smart glasses Google Glass? When this cutting-edge gadget appeared about ten years ago, it was truly an early adopter device. Most of the rest of the world was afraid of the camera on it and their privacy. Partly because of this, the project did not really get off the ground.

Now it appears that Google intends to make a new Google Glass, writes The New York Times. Google is making it in partnership with North, a Canadian AR company that acquired it last year. The idea is to display a map or blueprint of a building with the glasses on. It therefore has a slightly different augmented reality function than the first glasses.

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On the other hand, we can imagine that the new glasses do take a number of options from the first glasses, such as the possibility to see notifications on the screen. However, the question is whether a striking camera will be placed on it again. Although, on the other hand, other glasses with cameras have now appeared, which people seem to have less problems with: for example, Spectacles from Snapchat.

The camera was then used to take movies and photos in a kind of first person perspective like in Prodigy’s Smack my Bitch Up clip, but perhaps now through Google’s artificial intelligence capabilities the camera could help identify certain things as a kind of Google Lens.

Metaverse or Googleverse?

Of course, it is also questionable whether Google wants to use these glasses to help with access to the Metaverse that Facebook/Meta is currently working on, because it would also be working on its own augmented reality project.

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