Smart glasses are all the rage in 2024. Amazon has its Echo Frames, Meta has its Ray-Ban smart glasses, and it seems that new brands are unveiling their smart spectacles with each new month of the year. Could Google be next?

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Google sneakily teased a pair of nondescript smart glasses at its I/O event in Mountain View, California. During a demonstration of its camera AI assistant, Gemini Live, a video showed someone asking Gemini Live questions as they pointed their phone camera around, like what neighborhood they were in and what objects nearby made sounds. 

Then, the speaker asked Gemini Live where she last saw her glasses. The speaker then picked up the glasses from a desk, put them on, and began to prompt the glasses with similar questions. The smart glasses can apparently do everything Gemini Live on a phone can do.

Gemini Live uses video understanding capabilities developed by Google DeepMind's Project Astra. Project Astra should play a big role in these undisclosed smart glasses, but we won't know for sure until Google details the device.