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Google wants to sell those Project Astra AR glasses some day, but it won’t be today


Google is slowly peeling back the curtain on its vision to, one day, sell you glasses with augmented reality and multimodal AI capabilities. The company's

At this point, we’ve seen multiple demos of Project Astra — DeepMind’s effort to build real-time, multimodal apps and agents with AI — running on a mysterious pair of prototype glasses. image Credits: GoogleA Google spokesperson told TechCrunch they have no timeline for a consumer launch of this prototype, and the company isn’t sharing many details about the AR technology in the glasses, how much they cost, or how all of this really works. I got a chance to try out the multimodal AI agent — albeit, as a phone app and not a pair of glasses — earlier this week, and while it’s not available for consumer use today, I can confirm that it works pretty well.

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