We tried on Google’s prototype AI smart glasses

theverge.comPublished: 5/20/2025

Summary

Outside, there’s a long line of tech journalists, and we are all here for one thing: to try out Project Moohan and Google’s Android XR smart glasses prototypes. Because of the clamoring crowd outside, I’m then given a quick run-through of Google’s prototype Android XR glasses. Tapping the side will bring up Gemini on the Android XR prototype glasses. Now that’s something the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses can’t do — and arguably, one of the Meta glasses’ biggest weaknesses for the content creators that make up a huge chunk of its audience. You can also see it in the way Google is positioning AI as the killer app for headsets and smart glasses.