TL;DR
- Samsung and Google showed off a pair of audio-only Android XR glasses at I/O today.
- While those will launch this fall, full display glasses aren’t due to arrive before the end of 2026.
- Developers, however, will get access to the tethered XREAL Project Aura later this year.
Smart glasses are sure vying hard to be the next big thing. Bulky headsets may get the job done when we’re tethered to our computers, but the most interesting products in development here are also the most versatile — and they’re what Google’s calling “Intelligent Eyewear.” We just got a look during the I/O 2026 keynote at the audio-only models coming later this year from Google, Samsung, and a couple eyewear partners, and now we’ve also got some news to share about what the timetable’s looking like for display glasses.
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