Prova de les ulleres Android XR de Google: Maps convenç, però la pantalla en un sol ull genera dubtes

I got a chance to test Google's Android XR glasses in collaboration with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. And I have some thoughts. The first of you appreciate me traveling all the way to test the glasses and make this video just for you guys. All I ask is I use subscribe so you can see all the latest and best smart glasses content and so that you could potentially win a pair of smart glasses. We're doing some giveaways very very soon. It's getting really close and you can't win anything if you're not subscribed. So make sure you press that button and check if you think you are because you might not be. So the Google XR Android glasses are not the project or X-reels which are more like AR glasses. Instead they use a Sony Micro OLED display. Sort of like these rocad glasses actually pretty similar since they're both 49 grams Although these have a dual lens display in their all green and the Google Android XR glasses have a single lens display Which is optional you could just get the audio only version and it's in full color So in that way, it's more similar to the meta-ray band display glasses, which are quite a bit bulkier and heavier but single lens right eye full color similar in that way

Now the nice thing is these do have a camera so you can record and take photos in horizontal it seems which is just absolutely amazing unlike the meta-ray bands which only do vertical video. They weigh a pretty nice light 49 grams as I mentioned which is a great form factor for glasses and they look pretty good. The ones that I tested weren't actually the branded Warby Parker or gentle monster designs, which you can see in this picture here. But all of the same software stuff, how the glasses actually function, that is all the stuff that I didn't get to test live on a pair of glasses by Google. So the glasses have a camera and LED light. They have microphones. They have speakers, so you can listen to music, make calls, do all of those things, and they operate on the Android XR ecosystem, meaning a couple things. Most importantly, it has Gemini AI built in. You're also going to be able to get Google Maps turned by turn navigation, which I also got a test and it was really cool. You're going to get live translation. You can obviously pair it with your phone. It's going to have touch controls on the side, but you can also control it with your voice much easier.

and it's gonna have multi-modal AI. So you can ask AI questions to Gemini about things you're looking at, which I got to test as well. Now you do have an option between having no display, sort of like the Ray-Band Meta's, or having an in-lens display, more like the Meta Ray-Bands, with the latter, obviously costing more. Well, to start off the display quality. Now it was in full color which was really nice. It's a smaller field of view just like you would expect with any wave guide displayed glasses of that form factor, someone to like the rocket glasses, but it is in full color, which honestly does wonders when it comes to telling a part of different things in the map and in the mini map, especially, which I'll get to. But I was able to ask a few different questions and some integrations that I didn't actually fully get to test because it didn't have. time. But one of those integrations is YouTube Music fully integrated. You can do voice commands to get that going. All that is going to display the music on the screen to cover all that stuff, which you might have seen in the demo. It's really cool. That feature I specifically I didn't get to test, but here are some of the things I did. So you'll see on the screen here what was displayed in front of me without the actual camera feed, just the display. And for me, this is kind of on towards the bottom of the screen in my field of view, which is an interesting touch because

A lot of the times when you're using display glasses, like the Rokie glasses, Meta-Raybens, all that, it tends to be like top-right. The Mungulaz sort of shows them to go more for like the bottom part of your field of view. Either way, it keeps the subject out of focus. Honestly, I kind of like it, because they're not like randomly looking up. Just kind of nice. But yeah, that's sort of the placement of the field of view. When I first put on the glasses, I saw the weather and the time, just like these little tiny things. in the glasses, which were very readable and it's nice. Like it's not an overly cluttered heads up display. Honestly, you could leave it there and you wouldn't probably notice it that much, which was cool. The brightness was also really good because the room I was in was extremely bright. It was like fluorescent lights everywhere. So the brightness was absolutely no problem whatsoever. From there, I looked at this menu, which was in a different language. I didn't ask Gemini to translate it for me. which it did perfectly. It read the entire menu and addition to the audio response that I was getting, I also got a written response out in front of me. Now you could obviously just turn down the audio and then only have the visual response which could be useful if you don't like to hear all the audio stuff.

And obviously, if you just want the audio, you can get the non-display version, or maybe you'll add a setting for it like they did with the broken glasses. But overall, the translation worked flawlessly. I mean, I had this entire menu, and it summarized sort of the less important things about the menu directly translated the things that I actually cared about, which were the food items. So that was really cool. And then if I forgot what it said, I can just look back in the words and see a couple of lines ago, which is quite nice. Translation, I'll use for it. Multimodal look and ask translation worked really well. Now we also asked it about this book and it was able to give me details about the book. sort of like the plot and general things about it all I asked was for it to tell me about it and even mentioned the similarities with the book next to it which I wasn't even looking at was just like a sort of the periphery of the field of view which was a cool added some context to it which I thought was honestly pretty nice. The next was my favorite part of the demo and that is where it's sort of gave me a choice between YouTube music and Google Maps and obviously I chose maps because I love that. Maps Navigation in Glasses is just such a useful thing and it's not. And it's not that useful in the meta-rabe and displays because they have such limited support and they're using their own meta maps. But with the Google Maps Navigation, this was not a problem at all. So all I asked it to do.

was to take me to the nearest coffee shop. And then it told me the nearest coffee shop and asked that I wanted to go there. But it also said there was a couple other close ones like Starbucks. And I was like, oh, actually just take me there instead. And then it starts the navigation and it gives you turn by turn directions. Now, this is pretty simple. It just says one year next term will be how many feet it's in, which direction to go, right? Nothing crazy. No AR, stuff like that. But it's functional. Now, the really cool thing though is if you look down, you get a half circle at the bottom. But only if you look down, And it shows you from above on the map, and that allows you to navigate and see the streets that you're on much better. And the really cool thing about this is it does track... with which direction her body is facing. Like a lot of other display glasses in their navigation don't do. You want to know which ones do that, which ones don't. I have an entire video at the best navigation glasses. I don't think I've released it yet, but I'm going to release it very soon. I did a ton of crazy tests. But it turns with your body really, really useful. And the mini map in general was my favorite part of the entire experience. It was really, really cool. I loved it. The one thing that I would start to prefer is if it was a full mini map, like a circle. I don't know why it's a half circle. It's weird to me. I'm not used to seeing a half circle.

fade it on the bottom, so that's a bit strange. But who knows, maybe it's a field of limitation, not sure. But overall, it's so cool that you can do that. It's sort of like the every site, Maverick AI pro glasses, where if you look up or look down, it can sort of trigger different things, clearly they have that capability with the Google Android XR glasses, because if you look down, they trigger that mini map when you're in navigation mode. And that could obviously really easily be added to few different things in different applications like maybe translation, view it down, something different appears when you're recording videos, maybe you look down and you see different stats. It's really cool. A lot of really cool implementations on this that I hope that they work through and get into. But it looks like developers will also be able to make absence is within the Android XR ecosystem. So I'm expecting to see really cool things, especially because they can build using the same tools they've been using to build for Android. all of this time. Something that I hope Apple implements because then I'm going to be making apps for their glasses like crazy when they come out. But that was sort of my demo experience of the Android XR display glasses. Now what do I think overall? The biggest con to these glasses for me was actually the fact that they followed suit along with meta here and they made the display just in the right eye instead of in both. This cuts down on the clarity a lot.

And it sort of looks like a flashing light when you're looking at the screen to the point where it sometimes I just close my left eye because it's just easier and more comfortable. Like I don't like that one eye can see it the other eye can't so it just seems like it's constantly flashing in and out. Maybe I can show you a brief visual of that here just like like a map or something like flashing on and off. It's kind of annoying. I don't love it. It feels a little bit less annoying than the meta rabbi displays. I don't know why but It's still something I don't love. I'll probably will get the glasses just for this channel, but I'm definitely going to enjoy it when they do the dual display version. A lot more and the main reason they did this is just like any other brand is because a cost-less, right? They're gonna try to bring it to an entry point that's lower level and they can still show all of the cool stuff about the glasses in ads and in the different launch events on the screen and it look really cool because it'll look clear and it won't be flashing to the audience and to the people watching their advertisements and it will allow more people to get into it and then maybe when they realize oh it doesn't look that clear then next year they'll be like oh now now we have the clear one that looks good

and now that you know what the first one is, you'll upgrade. So, it kind of sucks, but it is what it is. I would recommend the dual display one more, but if you want to be first in, you want to make some apps for it, or you want to experience like YouTube, music integration, you want a better version. If you like the meta-reabendant displays, be having Android maybe, or you just like Google's apps, like you like YouTube, music, you like Google Maps, all that stuff, it's probably gonna be better than the meta-reabendant displays. It probably will be, especially on release day. Meta-reabendant displays are better now, which I'll talk about eventually, but on like launch day, like the maps, there wasn't a lot of features, and there are a little underwhelming and expensive. I'm hoping the Google will do better on launch day at creating a better product that will be even. easier to build on. So those are my overall thoughts. What I recommend ordering it, well, you can't pre-order it yet. So I guess you don't really have to think about it yet. But if you have an Android phone, it's kind of a no-brainer. And if you're right, I dominant. A little more than half of the population is, then the eye-strained shouldn't bother you too much. But if you're left, I dominant like me. And I think 40% of the population is probably going to suck. So, the sum test you can do, like with triangles, to figure that out, you can look it up online. Figure out if you're right or left, I dominant.

If your left eye dominant, I would really like to just hold it off on any single lens displays because they're only going to be in the right eye and it's Guinness Duck. One major complaint other than that, everything looked pretty good and the map's integration was amazing. I loved it. It's functional, it's minimalistic, it's not like too much info in your face and that's sort of the thing that was really nice about the Android. XR, single lens display glasses, have full color, they have all this power, they can activate different things from looking different directions, but they still choose to be minimalistic with their display. It's not like you're in a video game and it's like different how the elements in every corner and you're like, ah! It's just real life, it tries to get out of the way and that's probably the biggest strength so far other than the fact that developers should be able to build port very, very easily if they're already in the Android ecosystem. So I'm excited for them to come out. I'll give you guys more updates as they release, but what do you think? Are you gonna actually get the Android XR glasses? The designs look pretty cool, the general monster one, the particular looks really fashionable on the lower part of one looks classic and timeless and I like the designs quite a bit. Let me know your thoughts down in the comments. Thank you so much for watching. Until next time.