Google starts testing ‘smart glasses’ in public: How they look like, what they are and all other details

Almost 10 years after Google Glass, Google is bringing back its smart glasses in public again. Google unveiled a prototype pair of Augmented Reality(AR)-based glasses at this year’s Google I/O conference in May 2022. The company has now announced that it plans to test these AR glass or ‘smart glass’ prototypes in public beginning next month. The search giant wants to take its ‘smart glasses’ from the lab into the real world.

” …starting next month, we plan to test AR prototypes in the real world. This will allow us to better understand how these devices can help people in their everyday lives. And as we develop experiences like AR navigation, it will help us take factors such as weather and busy intersections into account — which can be difficult, sometimes impossible, to fully recreate indoors,” wrote Juston Payne, Group Product Manager at Google. Here are all the details: