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Google to release first smart glasses since Google Glass flop
Key takeaways
- The glasses will go on sale sometime in autumn and feature a small camera in the frames and small speakers in the arms, allowing Google's artificial intelligence (AI) product Gemini to interact with a user.
- Google revealed the glasses for the first time during its annual developer conference on Tuesday, offering one style designed by Warby Parker and another by Gentle Monster.
- Google Glass was launched in 2013 but pulled in 2015, just seven months after its UK release, after a backlash around price and privacy.
Kali Hays,Technology reporterand Lily Jamali,North America Technology correspondent, Mountain View, California Google More than a decade after its famed Google Glass failure, Google is going to try again with smart glasses.
The glasses will go on sale sometime in autumn and feature a small camera in the frames and small speakers in the arms, allowing Google's artificial intelligence (AI) product Gemini to interact with a user.
Google revealed the glasses for the first time during its annual developer conference on Tuesday, offering one style designed by Warby Parker and another by Gentle Monster.
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