Samsung today teased a new slate of smart glasses designs, which includes two new frames from eyewear partners Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.
When Samsung and Google finally unveiled their jointly-developed smart glasses at Google I/O in May, US-based Warby Parker and South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster showed off their initial designs, seen below.
At the time, Gentle Monster’s initial ‘cat eye’ design seemed to fill a gap in the current smart glasses milieu, which was notably before Meta revealed it had collaborated with Kylie Jenner on a strikingly similar design.
Now, at Samsung Unpacked in London, the brands have shown off two new designs, which funnily enough still don’t have names. Here’s Gentle Monster’s next design:
And here’s Warby Parker’s next design, which is very similar to the first, albeit with a slightly less-pronounced nose bridge:
All four are ostensibly set to launch sometime this fall, making them essentially the first smart glasses to run Google’s Android XR operating system.
Much like Meta’s fleet of audio-only smart glasses, the Gentle Monster and Warby Parker frames pack in a single camera sensor for things like photo, video, and to give AI access to what you’re seeing, so it can do things like answer questions, real-time translation, and more.
That said, there’s still a lot to learn about them too, as we still don’t know specific release dates or prices for any of the pairs revealed thus far. For now, Samsung says all of the smart glasses are built on the Snapdragon AR1 Gen1 platform, and are set to offer up to nine hours on a single charge with up to seven additional full charges from the charging case.