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Alongside the headset launch today, Samsung also teased glasses powered by Android XR as it works on multiple extended reality form factors. Seamlessly connected to the Android XR ecosystem, these devices will pair advanced XR capabilities with style, comfort, and practicality, bringing boundary-free discovery, work, and play into daily life. At I/O 2025, Google said it’s partnering with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker “to create stylish glasses.” Those partnerships are now extending to Samsung: “In collaboration with Google, Samsung is working with pioneering lifestyle brand Warby Parker, known for leveraging technology to create beautifully designed eyewear and deliver exceptional customer experiences.” “At the same time, Samsung is also partnering with Gentle Monster to bring stylish, fashion-forward eyewear that blends cutting-edge AI-native technology with cultural influence and design leadership.” Today’s news goes beyond how Google and Samsung said in May that it was “creating a software and reference hardware platform that will enable the ecosystem to make great glasses.” At the time, Google said developers would “be able to start building for this platform later this year.” There was a brief, heavily stylized — “Dramatized to show future visibly only” — teaser at the end of today’s event that obliquely showed off some frames. The part where the camera would be was excluded. Advertisement - scroll for more content Samsung will presumably start with glasses that lack a screen, and just have speakers, microphones, and a camera. Google previewed translation, navigation, messaging, and other use cases for glasses. All this is possible without an “optional in-lens display.”
