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Google is expected to debut its AI-powered Android XR smart glasses, rivaling Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. Google first teased the return of smart glasses at its I/O keynote in 2024 (remember Google Glasses?). Last year, the company showed off a Gemini-powered prototype version, which Abrar Al-Heeti, CNET's senior tech reporter, tested at Mobile World Congress. Al-Heeti was especially impressed by the Google Maps demo, which provided directions based on a picture she viewed through the glasses, as well as the ability to look at a vinyl album cover and ask Gemini to play a song from it. Sounds

By Mike Sorrentino After spending several minutes showing off the look of the audio glasses, it doesn't seem to me that this demo shows the glasses really fulfilling much of a need. The glasses seem like a glorified microphone that just connects to your phone, and that phone's doing all of the actual "work" for ordering a cold brew. I could just... pull out the phone and probably do this faster.