If anyone has an eye for where the tech industry is headed, it’s probably Tony Fadell. During his time at Apple, he led the team that developed the iPod (RIP) and the first three generations of the iPhone. Then, he co-founded the now Google-owned smart home company Nest, which raised the bar for how connected …
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Following reports that Google has been developing AR glasses, the company indeed announced a prototype pair of glasses at this year’s Google I/O conference. Google’s focus with these glasses appears to be helpful features such as language translation. Google acquired smart glasses maker North in 2020, and its work with Google Glass pioneered smart eyewear nearly a decade ago. Now playing: Watch …
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A series of pop-up directional markers appear, in tiny green lines across my vision. As I turn, I can see which direction north is. These are markers on a compass, projected on a little MicroLED display, perched on a contact lens, held in front of my eye on a stick. After years of trying on smart glasses, my return to …
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After giving up on its virtual reality ambitions back in March of last year, it seems that Google is ready to enter the augmented reality space with its acquisition of Raxium, a startup dedicated to making MicroLED displays. Raxium is a five-year-old startup that’s made impressive strides in the field of augmented reality displays. The terms of the deal are …
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What seemed likely months ago now seems even more so: Google is reportedly entering the AR headset race. What’s weird is that Google has already been here before. Years and years before. I wore Google Glass in 2013 on my train commute. It was my first pair of smart eyewear. I also used Google Daydream, Google’s VR goggles that worked …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. TCL, best known in the US for its value-priced TVs, is now looking to leap into lenses with a new smart glasses concept it announced ahead of CES 2022. The Chinese electronics maker joins tech giants like Facebook parent company Meta, Microsoft, …
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Facebook (now renamed Meta) is still trying to make AR-enabled, AI-assisted smart glasses happen. The company announced plans to field-test its camera and sensor-studded Project Aria research glasses in more places, with neural input wristbands, and even in cars. These plans for even more data-hungry glasses were announced during a week where a trove of leaked internal documents has reignited …
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They’re back. Smart glasses. Not the ones from Google and Snap that largely fizzled and faded from view many months and years ago. Now there’s a new pair of high-tech glasses that craves your attention: the awkwardly named Ray-Ban Stories from Facebook. Priced at $299, the Facebook Ray-Bans can shoot photos and 30-second videos, play music and podcasts, and make …
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Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses feel almost normal at times. And, of course, utterly abnormal. And also very familiar. I’ve used products like this, off and on, for years. Welcome to Facebook’s first smart glasses. After promising smart glasses for years, Facebook’s first glasses are disappointingly familiar. These aren’t AR glasses at all. They don’t have displays in them. Instead, they’re …
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When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social network was working on its first smart glasses, he tried to dial down the hype. The glasses, he suggested during the Facebook Connect conference in September 2020, would be just a step toward a more ambitious project. “They’re not yet augmented reality glasses,” Zuckerberg said, referring to technology that places digital …
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