We still don't have a price or release date on Android XR Glasses

So let's talk a little bit about what we got in terms of the glasses there

So for you, is that the thing that excited you the most

I'm a sucker for new hardware, and those glasses look cool. I mean, I think there's, even there, I think there's a touch of personal disappointment

that they didn't put any kind of display or anything like that

Now they tease, that's still coming, that's coming down the road, but the fact that those weren't ready to show off today, mild disappointment

because what ends up, what we're getting right now are these that are functionally very similar

to the meta Ray-Bans, the Oakley Ray-Bans that we already have, which is to say relatively ordinary glasses with a camera lens and with a microphone

and then speakers and open ear speakers. And so, you know, those will be cool, especially because, you know

they were showing off some features, you know, some of the stuff they were doing with Navi showing off with navigation

some of the stuff they were showing off with like texts, that's stuff that the meta Ray-Bans can't do. So they could be cool, but yeah

I would say, I would say there's some AI stuff that look cool too, but peak excitement there

but still wanting to have a little bit of grain of salt

It is something else for sure. Uh, well, hopefully now, I think we've got a Timothy Beck worth with us from, uh, Mashable. Uh

We've been chatting away about the glasses. I see thankfully you are a glasses wearer already They don look like they are functionally smart ones though So how much did this sort of thing excite you

I mean, it was the most exciting part of the show, for sure. I've actually only been wearing glasses for two months now

I'm brand new to the club, and I've been testing smart glasses the entire time

So I'm very much in the eyewear zone. So I was excited to hear about these

but like it's been mentioned there was no price there was no firm release date we don't even

really know what they're called I mean it was interesting to hear them kind of categorize these

as audio glasses in the past I would think of that kind of as something else meaning it just

plays music but they're clearly going with audio glasses for this category but yeah there's so much

we don't know really the most interesting thing is that they look cool that you know we finally

for the first time have stylish smart glasses uh that's really frankly never been the case

uh they're often a little chunky you know even the ray-bans look a little awkward but our team

was impressed i mean the the gentle monster ones especially they look hip so i'm excited yeah

yeah some of the some of the the the shots i saw of them they actually they do kind of just look

like regular glasses, maybe a little chunky on the arms, but that's kind of it

We still didn't really kind of hear a lot about things in terms of the privacy elements And also we got a lot of things to do in terms of having heads displays which might might be great for kind of walking directions but

then you know then what kind of happens if you're driving and and then where do these constant uh

um you know the notifications coming from your instructions or from incoming texts and things

i think there's some gray areas in terms of how these things are going to be uh going to be

deployed but i guess that's always going to be the case when we kind of have a new category of

device and certainly something that you are wearing all the time um i mean i'm really going

to be looking forward to seeing like how all of our teams uh really get to grips with these things

because i know we've got some people like uh like scott stein on cnet who's who's worn pretty much

every single one of these things he's quite an advocate of of of this of this tech when it's

used in the right way. And I think we've also got plenty of people who are a bit more sort of

naturally cynical of them. And I kind of want to bring them together into a ring and make them fight

and see, see who wins. I think Gebhar, Andrew, you're kind of broadly pro

You're, you're excited about this. Yeah, sure. I, I guess broadly pro is a good way of putting it

I, I, so. That's a high pitched endorsement. Yeah. Really? Really? Really

That's how you express enthusiasm, right? It just you bring your voice all the way up into the glass breaking octaves I think that they will be potentially really cool helpful devices

But I mean, Andrew, one of the things we were talking about in the pre-show was

so they're very similar to those Meta Ray-Bans and the implications for privacy are there, you know

And so I think that's maybe where my hesitation would come from is that you're just making it easier

for people to, in a sly way, take pictures and videos and stuff out in the public

And, you know, Google's gonna say all the right things in terms of, there's gonna be a notification light

and we're gonna tell people, hey, don't you do that. And then, you know, problem solved

But I'm wondering what that's actually gonna look like in terms of privacy

So I don't think this product is gonna be all, you know

roses and micro brewed beer, you know, not all good things. There's going to be, there's going

to be positives and negatives here. And, and the other thing, like, especially those meta Ray-Bans

So I think those look stylish. You know, you guys were saying the meta Ray-Bans and the Oakleys

aren't good enough and they look fine, but these are a distinct step up clearly. But one of the

ways that the big questions were, you know, you talked about wearing this thing all day

how's the battery life and how's the sound quality because open ear speakers can sometimes

struggle with that they can sometimes struggle with audio leakage so we've heard some questions

about smarts but then there's a lot of nitty-gritty we still need to know