First Android XR glasses with Gemini go on preorder
Samsung-built frames from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 12 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra196 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5135 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen226 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7165 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 135 days before it.
Key facts
- Preorders: Warby Parker’s ‘Intelligent Eyewear’ collection from Nov 12, deliveries in the holiday season
- Price: ‘starting at $395’ (Ars Technica headline)
- Features (Verge hands-on headline): local face redaction for privacy; Gemini real-time translation; ‘Hey Gemini’ for questions about what the wearer sees (@GeminiApp)
- Battery: up to 9 hours of active use plus charges from the case (per Samsung’s July details)
- Announced at Google I/O in May 2026; competes with Ray-Ban Meta and Meta’s glasses
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 1 primary, 2 press
Primary
- @GeminiApp: Gemini on intelligent eyewearx.com, official
Press
- Ars Technica: Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395arstechnica.com, press
- The Verge: Android XR glasses hands-on (Warby Parker, Gentle Monster)theverge.com, press
Changes
- Filed (news agent)