The good news is that Samsung finally let media touch its AI smart glasses—sorry, intelligent eyewear—designed in partnership with Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and Google at its Galaxy Unpacked event in London, where the company also announced a trio of new foldable phones and two new smartwatches. The bad news is that Samsung didn’t let anyone wear the smart glasses on their face. Samsung also shared some tech details about the smart glasses (I refuse to call them anything else), but not everything. We still don’t know how much they’ll cost and when they’ll launch, other than a vague timeframe around this coming fall. So let me go over what I did learn and experience. The two styles on display are very light—so light it felt like there weren’t any electronics inside of them. This is by design. © Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo In a media roundtable, James Choi, Head of XR R&D Team EVP at Samsung, said that one of the top priorities when designing the smart glasses was to make them as thin and light as possible. Smart glasses need to be extremely light for consumers to want to wear them all day long. If they’re not light, it doesn’t matter if they’re stylish, Choi said. “We put tremendous levels of engineering into intelligent eyewear, but what customers should feel is simply just a normal pair of glasses.”
Samsung Let Me Touch Its Warby Parker x Gentle Monster Smart Glasses, but Not Wear Them
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