Everything announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, AI agents, and smart glasses
Google's I/O 2026 developer conference has finally wrapped, and the keynote was, truthfully, a bit of a snooze for non-developers. The headline Gemini news amounted to a half-step update in Gemini 3.5 Flash, with the word "agentic" getting a full workout.
Google is "building a new agentic era," as one executive put it on the stage. The big theme this year: let Gemini do the heavy lifting. Emails, dinner reservations, vacation planning, shopping — Gemini wants to be your everything solution. The twist is Google now wants it done autonomously, within limits, naturally.
Hardware was equally quiet. The most notable announcement was a pair of smart glasses the company is calling "audio glasses" — essentially Google's answer to Meta Ray-Bans, but leaning harder into style with collaborations from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The goal seems to be making camera glasses that don't scream, "I am wearing camera glasses."
All told, it was a characteristically uneventful show — which, let's be honest, is basically the I/O keynote tradition at this point. But there was still plenty announced worth digging into, so here's the full rundown.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is the new default model
Google launched the first model in the new Gemini 3.5 line today, and it's available now in the Gemini app and other Google AI products. Google execs said that a new flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, would be coming in June.
Gemini 3.5 Flash beats most frontier models in benchmarks and token efficiency, according to Google. The company says it also surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro in most respects. You can start using it right away at gemini.google.com.
Gemini Spark wants to run your life
The splashiest announcement of the keynote was Gemini Spark, a cloud-based AI agent that runs continuously in the background, handling tasks while you're busy doing everything else. As I wrote during its announcement, it's possibly the most ambitious thing Google has put on stage in a while. At least, the most ambitious of anything else announced at I/O today.
Powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash and built with Google's Antigravity coding IDE, Spark connects to Gmail, Docs, and eventually over 30 third-party apps, including Uber, OpenTable, Lyft, and Zillow. It rolls out to AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. next week.
To stop it from going rogue with your credit card, Google talked about Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), which caps what Spark can spend, where it can shop, and what it can buy. For now, you still approve every transaction. The company described Spark as a teenager getting their first debit card and stated that over time, the agent will get looser guardrails as trust is built.
Google's AI subscription tiers got cheaper
Google reshuffled its AI subscription lineup at I/O, and the headline is that things got more affordable. As I reported earlier, the new entry point for AI Ultra is $99.99/month — down from $250 — aimed at developers and power users, bundling Gemini 3.5 Flash, 5x the usage limits of Pro, priority access to Google Antigravity, 20TB of storage, and a full YouTube Premium plan. The $250 tier still exists but drops to $200. The full lineup now sits at AI Plus ($7.99), AI Pro ($19.99), and AI Ultra (starting at $99.99).
Google is also ditching the per-prompt counting model in favor of measuring compute used, meaning a simple text query barely dents your limit while a complex video task costs more. Limits also now refresh every five hours instead of daily, and if you hit your cap, Google automatically steps you down to a lighter model rather than cutting you off entirely.
Gmail is getting a live voice mode
Gmail Live, a new feature reported by Mashable's Haley Henschel, lets you verbally ask your inbox questions instead of typing searches. The pitch is pretty straightforward — ask what your flight's gate number is or what's happening at your kid's school this week, and Gmail pulls the answer from your emails. Similar conversational features are also coming to Google Docs and Keep. Gmail Live rolls out this summer for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, with a Workspace preview at the same time.
AI Inbox, which started as an Ultra-only feature earlier this year, is getting three new additions and broader access for Pro and Plus subscribers. The updates include personalized draft replies, instant access to relevant Docs and Sheets, and one-click task management to clear out inbox clutter. Those features start rolling out today. Gmail VP of product Blake Barnes said in a media pre-brief that user data isn't used for training on either feature, and that sourcing is being built in so you can see exactly which emails informed a given response.
Google Search gets its biggest overhaul in 25 years
Search — the thing that made Google Google — is getting another serious injection of AI. The company is throwing a lot at its flagship product this year, and most of it falls under the same "let Gemini handle it" umbrella that dominated the keynote.
SEE ALSO:Google I/O 2026: Even more AI is coming to Google Search
The most symbolically significant update might be the new intelligent AI Search Box, which Google is billing as the first redesign of its search box in over 25 years. The expanded box now supports natural language queries and lets you attach images, videos, files, and even Chrome tabs alongside your search. Basically, Google wants you to stop Googling and start... talking to Google.
AI Overviews is also getting a back-and-forth conversation mode. Users can now ask follow-up questions directly within the Overview, turning what was a static summary into more of a chatbot exchange. It's a logical evolution, even if it continues to beg the question of what happens to the websites that used to get that traffic.
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Search Agents
The bigger swing: Google introduced Search agents, which are essentially AI assistants that run 24/7 in the background, scanning news sites, blogs, and social media on your behalf. Google's example use cases — tracking apartment listings, monitoring sneaker drops — are genuinely useful, though the catch is that these information agents are locked to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers when they launch this summer.
The agentic push extends to shopping and booking too, where agents can surface live prices, availability, and direct booking links. Google is also letting agents make actual phone calls to businesses on your behalf — a feature rolling out to all users this summer.
Google is broadening access to Personal Intelligence in Search, its feature that connects your Gmail, Google Photos, and soon Google Calendar, so Search can factor in your personal context. It's opt-in, and Google is quick to note users maintain control over their data, which is the kind of thing you say when you know people are going to ask.
Rounding things out, Google is folding AI coding tools powered by Google Antigravity directly into Search, with a clear push toward non-developers. Think custom fitness trackers or wedding planning dashboards — Gemini for people who've never touched a line of code.
Google and Samsung's smart glasses are real, just unnamed
The hardware story of the show was the first real look at Android XR smart glasses. Google and Samsung pulled back the curtain on two styles — one in collaboration with Gentle Monster, one with Warby Parker — both arriving this fall. There's still no name and no price, but the design is clearly meant to avoid the "obviously tech glasses" look that has plagued the category.
Google is deliberately calling these "audio glasses" to distinguish them from future display glasses. Functionally, they're in the same territory as Meta's Ray-Bans — voice commands, phone pairing, hands-free assistance — but with deep Gemini integration baked in. Samsung handled the hardware, and Google handles the AI and Android XR platform.
Google Shopping gets an overhaul
Shopping reporter Samantha Mangino broke down three new Google Shopping features announced at I/O, and the headliner is Universal Cart — a single cart that aggregates everything you've added across retailers like Target and Amazon into one Google-side view, working in the background to flag price drops and restock alerts. It hits Google and Gemini in the US this summer, with Gmail and YouTube support to follow.
The bigger structural move is Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), which lets AI agents complete purchases and hotel bookings directly through partners, including Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, and Meta. It also surfaces relevant fees and card rewards automatically so you know what you're actually paying before you check out.
Docs Live
Google announced Docs Live, a new feature that lets you dump your word vomit and thoughts into Gemini and have it turn them into a structured document in real time. From there, you can refine it conversationally — just tell Gemini what to fix, add, or cut, and it updates on the spot.
SynthID gets a big lift
One of the bigger under-the-radar moments of the keynote: Google's AI digital watermarking tool SynthID is being adopted by OpenAI, Kakao, and ElevenLabs. The Google project is now becoming an industry standard in fighting against AI-generated content, and it's also a rare moment of cross-company alignment in the AI space.
In addition, SynthID will also be easily accessible in Chrome and Google Search. As Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in the keynote, that means users will be able to right-click and quickly see if an image or video contains a SynthID, and thus is likely AI-generated.
Gemini Omni is Google's new world model
Google unveiled Gemini Omni at I/O, its new multimodal world model. While Google is positioning it as a model that can "create anything from any output," the keynote demo leaned heavily into video generation. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is available today for paid AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and Google Flow, with a free rollout to YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create later this week.
Unlike text-to-video tools like Veo, Omni is multimodal in both directions — you can feed it text, audio, images, or video, and it generates back accordingly. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called it a "meaningful step" toward AGI at the keynote. The practical showcase was mostly about video editing through conversation, like swapping backgrounds, changing angles, and adjusting specific details in a clip. There's also an Avatar feature for creating a digital likeness of yourself, though Google says it's still being tested before a broader rollout. All Omni-generated videos get embedded with Google's SynthID watermark to identify them as AI-generated.
YouTube gets two updates, neither of them huge
YouTube got a relatively light showing at I/O compared to the rest of Google's product slate — but there were two things worth flagging.
Gemini Omni is coming to YouTube Shorts Remix, the platform's AI creation tool that generates videos from existing content. Creators will be able to use more advanced AI prompts to remix their Shorts, with AI-generated content labels and links back to the original source automatically applied. Google also expanded its likeness detection tool — which flags content where a creator's face has been AI-altered — to all creators 18 and older.
SEE ALSO:Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash model. How to try it for free now.
The second update isn't on YouTube itself but inside Google Search. Ask YouTube lets users surface relevant YouTube videos directly within search results when asking complex questions. Think tutorial-style queries — how to fix something, how to learn something — where a video would actually be more useful than a text answer. It's still in testing but expected to roll out across the US this summer.
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ReplyDeleteThey have nothing innovative anymore. That’s why they’re all desperate to push AI
ReplyDeleteWas this the most boring IO ?
ReplyDeleteEach year it gets worse.
DeleteIt has become some corporate jargon to please investors and no longer about the core developer community who built the success of their ecosystem.
"Agentic"
DeleteWhether you're into AI or not, it's happening. If you know what an Agentic AI actually does you wouldn't feel the need to put quotes over the word agentic like its not phenomenal tech.. You're either too old to get it, or your brain is too fried/rotted to even comprehend it. It's going to be a tough future for you my man.
DeleteAll that you've managed to infer there wasn't implied at all. All in your head, my man.
DeleteI was merely pointing out that it was the word of the show...
"each year it gets worse"
DeleteGood. They should focus on getting shit done and not having it all align with a developer conference. Naturally there's a million things in flight for the Googs
Your literal last submission on Blog is complaining that “loyalty means nothing now” about a tech company
DeleteYou're the reason everyone locks their comment history now just fyi
DeleteYes. Plus some disappointment.
DeleteSome? It seemed all of it was.
Delete✨⭐ AI ⭐✨
DeleteNo Pixel?
Deletegoogle IO is never about pixel devices. they have their own pixel event in august
DeleteI remember I used to get excited for these announcements like 10-15 years ago. Now I saw this headline and realized.... I don't care about anything any tech company is doing. None of it makes life any better or more enjoyable or helps form any real connections with anyone.
ReplyDeleteNo company views regular people like their customer anymore. I guess that was always the case, but at least it felt like we were their customers and not their product, for a while.
The entire tech industry in the "AI era" is just a big fucking Ouroboros eating itself, and we're the shit being moved through digestive track.
The difference is these tech companies used to be cool and different. Now the big tech companies look and act like their boring predecessor's; IBM, Oracle and MSFT.
DeleteTime to throw some hammers
Delete15 years ago Steve Jobs was still alive.
Deletei think people would view this I/o differently if they didnt spin off android into its own thing with The Android Show.
DeleteAndroid is now googles more product and consumer facing side. With laptops, tablets, phones, OS, watches etc; The developer keynote is for developers; I/O proper is for their ecosystem updates
Android is now souly Google's consumer data and predatory pricing extraction ecosystem.
DeleteYou nailed it. Before they announced features for Maps, Chromecast, thinga that actually make my life better. (While survailling me of course)
DeleteBut now, it's only for the shareholders. The more abstract, flashy, hyped smokescreen they can show, they will do it, to keep sh like a baby looking a moving keychain.
Tech was my life, I used to make fun of fat nasty open source hippie nerds, I turned into one myself the more I understand their bussiness.
Really? I loved it, mainly because of all the AI
DeleteCould have just been "more AI, we'll see you next time"
ReplyDelete"more ai and it'll cost you more as well... See ya"
DeleteHow did I not even realize it's Google I/O day, has the marketing dropped significantly?
ReplyDeleteGEMIN I/O. Nothing of any real interest.
ReplyDelete"Nothing of any real interest."
DeleteSure there was, AI and Gemini. I loved it.
This I/O 2026 was brought to you by the word "Agentic".
ReplyDeleteWhat did you all expect? Android updates were reserved for the random little Android show a week prior. Google is an AI company so not sure what you all thought you’d get other than AI updates.
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ReplyDeleteI just unsubscribed from Gemini AI. The rates are too low. I reached the 5-hour rate limits within 7 prompts with pro, standard thinking.
ReplyDeletethat doesn't sound right.
DeleteUnbelievable and unbelievably hilarious
ReplyDeleteso this is all about these events, mf can't complete a sentence without adding ai at beginning or ending
ReplyDeleteThey can’t stop throwing money at A.I. concepts that doesn’t create value, at the expense of human beings that actually do. What happened to the rapid advancements of material science of old? There was a time where hardware development was continuously evolving at a steady rate, then it plateaued when computers were introduced.
ReplyDeleteI’m tired of the hardline stance companies have taken towards software development, give us new materials that can be used for cars instead of digitizing every. Single. Function. and putting paywalls in a product people have otherwise paid full price to own in principle.
Look at what Bakelite and the microwave did for instance! We can’t have tangible things that can match that level of hype anymore.
Think about this: they don't have any other business opportunities. It's part of capitalism. Didn't banks know what could happen during the 2000's financial bubble? Yes, they did but they had no other option, so they never stopped irrationally lending money and selling those manipulated, sub-prime debt packages.
DeleteNowadays, capitalists (in this case, technocrats) know that this is a bubble waiting to explode, but they put all of their money on it nonetheless. Everybody knows AI spends a shit ton of capital without any real benefit, but who cares?
Absolutely sick of everything to do with ai, not seen one benefit yet but seen plenty of examples of it making everything worse
ReplyDeleteOver the last 6 months I've shipped what would have been hundreds of thousands to low single-digit millions of dollars worth of software a few years ago for a couple hundred bucks in tokens. It's absolutely nuts.
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DeleteI got paid a good bit more than a couple hundred bucks for it but you're right that the cost for bespoke software has plummeted.
DeleteAnd that's a good thing. A whole new class of businesses can afford custom software tailored to their business instead of being held hostage by one-size-fits-all SaaS products at exorbitant prices.
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DeleteAbout an hour ago we got an email that we need to upgrade our SQL Server License ($3,900/yr) to support the new version of our ERP software ($16,000/yr).
DeleteThis is cheap/small by B2B software license standards. $20 SaaS subscriptions are consumer products, not enterprise. I've been on projects where the licenses alone were win the hundreds of millions of dollars and the work to integrate stretched into the billions of dollars.
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Delete1. "It's ridiculously overpriced because the creators are just like you"
DeleteIt's ridiculously expensive because we have to spread costs across a much smaller user base. When Adobe creates Photoshop at a cost of millions or billions of dollars, they can afford to sell it for a few hundred bucks a pop because there are millions of buyers. When you make CRM software for a niche industry there might be a few hundred or maaaybe a couple thousand customers. If the cost to develop both pieces of software are the same the one with the smaller TAM has to be more expensive for us to cover our costs. Then take that to the extreme with custom software where there is exactly one customer and they pay the full price of development. Software is (or at least was) extremely extremely expensive to produce. My very first project cost $500,000 and took me and 4 other people about sinx months to produce. My second project cost $5 million dollars and only got greenlit after I came in under prior estimates which put it at $10 million. I did auth work on Fortune 100 website - $5-6 million. Site redesign for the same company $10 million. Integrating off-the-shelf product to replace the system of record - $1.2 billion over 5 years. To be clear this is what it cost to develop. This was in house IT, not a products or projects that get sold to someone else.
If you're a mom and pop bakery you cannot afford custom software. You just can't (or I guess you couldn't previously). Pay a freelancer somewhere in the low hundreds of dollars per hour and it takes 100-500 hours of work depending on what the widget you want built is and you can see how up until recently it was cost prohibitive. Now, tools like Claude Code and Codex take that 100-500 hour project and turn it into a 10-50 hour project. Still expensive but it starts to be within reach of people that were previously priced out.
"2. It's doing something that should not be vibecoded"
12 months ago most things probably shouldn't be vibe coded. The quality just wasn't there. Since Christmas 2025 the tools became WAY better. The quality is there now that generated code can go to production with minimal human review. Some sensitive things or industries still warrant more care and additional scrutiny but most enterprise code is now written by coding models. CRUD apps are basically one-shot these days if you have a mature pipeline and do test-driven/ spec-driven development.
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DeleteI'm not a freelancer, I don't own the company, and the dollar amounts I mentioned aren't want I get paid. We (the company) are the builders AND the "customers." That's our project budget, essentially just our salaries for the time we (myself and my team) are engaged. We don't sell the software to other people or other companies. Some of it is seen by the customer - public facing website, sales funnels, auth, etc. Some of it is internally facing and used by our employees to support our ops.
We are in "financial services" and I promise you know know the jingle.
Now I personally have done small one off things on the side as a hobby recently. Friends and family stuff. One guy insisted on paying me a couple grand even though I never asked. I told another friend she could pay me in cookies.
Next year AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI
ReplyDeleteagi?
DeleteYou might hear Demis say it a couple of times. Artificial General Inetlligence.
DeleteThey will claim AGI to create more hype
Artificial general intelligence
DeleteThis might be the worst beat ever.
ReplyDeleteSo nothing happened this year
ReplyDeleteAs always
Deleteholding up the entire economy btw
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely ridiculous. Tech bros are utterly incapable of reading the damn room, have plugged their fingers into their ears yelling "LALALALALALALA" as their userbase is SCREAMING at them to fuck off with this stupid GenAi garbage. Almost nobody fucking wants this shit. It's useless tech hyped crap, but they can't admit they fucked up and wasted investor money so they just keep pushing it on an unwilling audience until we relent, and it's only making the situation worse.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying that I'm happy about it or anything just that my guess is that when they bake it deep into a search engine and an OS and all sorts of services that you're already using, 99% of tech illiterate normies are going to regularly use it. Wether it's because their search bar now automatically generated an AI answer or that they also want a cute picture of their kids looking like yarn puppets on the birthday invitation... And soon enough they'll want one of those phones that can do.. that.
DeleteThe vocal anti-AI crowd is largely very aware of the power it gives a company like Google, the environmental impact, the AI war drones, the misinformation, how it can be wielded to decide what the truth is, possibly with political motivation. But I think that we're pretty much in a bubble and if you step outside of that, and judge the convenience of it just surface leven deep, I don't know if many people will keep saying no to it. Or if it will even be possible to completely say no to it without knowing how to debload your PC, install a different ROM on your phone and selfhost some services.
Also every corporate meeting or summit in 2026.
ReplyDeleteold mcgoogle had a farm, AI AI AI O and on this farm he had chatbots, AGI AGI O
ReplyDeleteEee i, eee i, o (old Macdonald had a farm)
ReplyDeleteA I A I NO (ftfy)
DeleteSomeone should make a remix of that.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Microsoft's "TV,TV,TV" presentation of Xbox One, that tanked the whole Xbox brand and Microsoft has not recovered from it more than a decade later.
ReplyDeletePeople still go to these silly events?
ReplyDeleteFuck eai
ReplyDeleteGarbage humans speed running collapse.
ReplyDeleteIn a better word that amount of "Ai-Ai" would only be used in reference to a group of people looking for one of these in madagascar, and not quite understanding how to say the name "Aye-Aye"
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/a/q0cNg9h
How is an agentic AI by Google on your phone doing all of the searching, planning and purchasing for the user not a mayor abuse of Google's dominance?
ReplyDelete- First Google decides to order search results with an algorithm. They had to tone it down so it didn't always show Google's own services first.
- Than they give you their AI answer above your search results so you didn't even have to visit the websites backed by the people who actually provided those results.
- Now you don't even do the searching yourself. You just ramble about your desires and Google makes all of the decisions to fulfill those desires.
And about those purchases in their new unified cart, they now obviously have a handful of "shopping partners" but once they have some good numbers of people purchasing stuff through unified cart, how long is it going to take before Google is going to ask a fee from the store? And how long before that fee is going to be too big for any small store?
Everything about this is baaaad 🐏and all I see on YouTube is influencers telling their followers how amazing it is!
Now that’s Eurovision
ReplyDeletemy heart goes out to you
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/a/4JgQr9W
AI Hitler!
DeleteLet's put AI aside, why is this guy paid that much? There're many talented middle-level actors in the US who would speak much more eloquent, work artistically, draw more sympathy and be extremely happy with $250K.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should make this into a dance song
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/iGxGgsGVbOs?si=2giqzmm3j4d_xilP
Ai Ai …. Ai Ian NIAN….. AI Ai Ai
ReplyDeleteHalf way through it just became gibberish 😭
ReplyDeleteFuck AI
ReplyDeletegoogle i/o 2026 summary - google: “we added AI to this”
ReplyDeletecrowd: “why?”
google: “we also added AI to the explanation of why we added AI” 😭
So this anyone here actually watched the event or are we going to hate it regardless of its content?
ReplyDeleteEe eye ee eye oh. Thanks, you saved me a lot of time. Did you use AI to highlight the best parts? lol
ReplyDeleteOld Mcdonald had a farm...
ReplyDeleteHilarious…!!!!!
ReplyDeletesounds like Ting-a-ling
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH_0_pijbZY&list=RDwH_0_pijbZY&start_radio=1
Old Mac Donald had a farm...AI,AI,Ooh
ReplyDeleteI hate this drinking game.
ReplyDeleteI´m pretty sure they said AI
ReplyDeleteSigh
ReplyDeleteYou used "AI" to make this clip or your brain is utter mush after doing soooooo many edits.
Technology company creates new technology. Damning if true.
ReplyDeletetechnology company embraces trash technology instead of focusing on core product
Deletemany such cases
so they purposely designed these to look like actual feces to make sure nobody buys them huh 🤔 interesting business model
ReplyDeleteI know a lot of ppl are angry about AR glasses and Reddit has a lot of breathless complainers… but my girlfriend is pretty anti tech and she said she wanted these 🤷♂️.
ReplyDeleteI think the form factor of ray ban wayfarers put me off them because they haven’t been fashionable in like a decade.
Gentlemonster has way better cache with female consumers and Asians, who are tbh the demographics that push culture the most these days.
"but my girlfriend is pretty anti tech and she said she wanted these"
DeleteFirst hurdle cleared. But the next is the more important one. That would be her getting some and finding they are something she can't live without.
BTW, I do the same thing on deciding if new tech will make it or not. In my case it is my wife.
A perfect example is Tesla FSD. I purchased an extra car for anyone to use in my house and also purchased FSD.
It took almost a year before my wife would even try FSD but now she is hooked. Where I almost never use any longer. I rather just drive the car in most circumstances.
Before she decides to make the purchase, maybe consider these articles
Deletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/s/UeGDjixuIS
AR glasses sound fun, camera glasses are horrible.
DeleteYeah, missed the opportunity to offer a cameraless option instead of a displayless one.
DeleteI'm guessing Google wasn't to avoid offering it because they want to normalize the camera.
How pray tell would they do AR without a camera…
DeleteI don't get these. So it's just a pair of glasses with a camera and speaker?
ReplyDeleteKeeping in mind that these products are being pushed for by creeps like Mark Zuckerberg, it is fair to assume that these products exist to allow creeps to get away with awful things way more discreetly than they were in the past
DeleteWtf? You okay?
DeletePlease, do explain why anyone needs discreet cameras placed inside glasses.
DeleteHave you no imagination? If you’re visiting another country, these would be great for navigation and on-the-fly translation
DeleteNobody needs them. Humans have been living without them for a hundred thousand years.
DeleteWhile I think these glasses are terrible this is an awful argument. Humans have been living without cell phones for a hundred thousand years, as well as most of our technology lol.
DeleteOkay, you're right. We need them.
DeleteHumans have also lived without wheels for longer than that. Whats your point?
DeleteWe don't need things but we want them to improve our lives to certain degrees, is my point.
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DeleteExactly, you answered your own question. He's okay, he's just concerned about the implications of these devices.
Also there's already reports of Meta staff having access to live feeds from people's wearables - which is even worse in my opinion.
We have enough CCTV, Ring doorbells and other equipment already keeping tabs on everything we do in public. Millions of people wearing these freely in private is just a privacy and big data nightmare
Google and Meta are totally different companies. I think you're getting mixed up.
DeleteYeah I get they're two totally different companies, I'm not confused there.
DeleteDo you really trust Google enough not to have similar issues? It's a company that collects data. If you walked around all day recording everything, they would 100% keep that to add to their knowledge base, and eventually use that info to sell you ads.
I think you and I have a totally different mindset, a privacy vs. utility trade-off
DeleteMost corporations I distrust and hate with a passion.
I don't know why buy Google I trust. They have our data, and never sell it. THey use it to improve their services that they offer to us for free. Even the tailored ads you mention, I would rather see an add for the next spiderman movie than one from big pharma for some boomer disease that I don't have and probably wont get. Not sure how old you are but before Google came along and cleaned up the www, the 90s was infested with banner ads and garbage popping up everywhere everywhere. Google came along and in my view, fixed that.
It is a company that collects data, you're right. That is their business, Information. Honestly, if I could, I wish I could give them more of my data so that all the shit I use from them daily, all their services would improve, especially the AI. I don't think I've ever given them any money for any services (hardware yes) so the trade off is good for me.
Again, I know you are all against what I just said and "privacy" is your thing but I trust Google to never selll my info, it's there secret sauce. Their stock would plumit the next quarter. Our info is anonymized anyway. Unlike Facebook (in my view).
At the end of the day, I think it comes down to personal boundaries. Some people trust Facebook but not Google, some trust Google but not Apple, some trust Apple but not Meta. I guess it just depends on who you trust, which services you use most, and what you’re personally comfortable sharing and with whom.
Sorry for the wall of text, I'm on an plane and have fuck all to do.
If the battery doesn't last all day (which I doubt) - DOA (for me at least)
ReplyDeleteDOA
ReplyDeleteAre we ever going to get smart glasses that look like glasses we'd actually wear?
ReplyDeletethe new Meta prescription style are very normal... even the cameras are smaller and less intrusive
DeleteMost smart glasses already do
DeleteThe warby parker design looks pretty normal.
DeleteThey also mentioned more designs on release.
Yes
DeleteLooks like swim goggles and called gentle monster? They never gave this product a chance
DeleteGentle Monster is a huge eyeware brand in Asia, and this style is very much in line with what made them fashionable there.
DeleteThe Warby Parker glasses are more Western in style
I don’t know about the rest of the world but this style is quite popular in Korea.
DeleteYes there are / will be giving them a chance.
DeleteGentle monster is a popular Korean brand sunglasses
DeleteNo. That would be disastrous for everyone.
DeleteHow?
Deleteprivacy. weird creeps that are going to use their glasses to engage in creepy voyeurism or to stalk people. I mean these meta glasses already give you the power to identify people with facial recognition if they have a Facebook account.
Deletenow imagine there's no way to to even protect yourself from this because the glass is looking distinguishable.
but we will get there someday because the centers of private capital that control the US government, they don't give a f*** about us. they will abuse our consumer rights, and by the time our antiquated Congress full of octonurgarians does anything about it it'll be too late
Not sure why you’re taking about the US but everyone’s rights are protected by the constitution
DeleteExtremely scary that you want to take that away
Children getting dressed, women getting dressed, being in an intimate and sexual situation, bathrooms, dressing rooms, etc. We are being watched everyday. But now Google and others want us to be watched while in very private and intimate situations?
DeleteI’d rather not think about the implications that anyone with glasses could potentially be recording everything around them.
DeleteGoogle Glass got rightly criticized back in the day because people realized just how creepy the idea was, but now because the glasses themselves look better and companies are reinventing their marketing around such products people are now seemingly ok with the same concept? It’s bizarre to say the least