- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.ml
tl;dr: in response to pressure from the apple vision pro, google killed their internal “iris” smart glasses effort in order to combine their efforts with samsung & work on one ui for xr & another unnamed headset. in doing so, they’ve also decided to let all oems skin android xr just like on phones. they’re also working on something called “micro xr”, but no one knows what that is yet.
- sarsaparilyptus ( @sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
“Google kills something nobody cares about in favor of a new implementation that nobody will care about” is almost a daily headline
- misguidedfunk ( @misguidedfunk@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
We’re these the translation AR glasses?
it could possibly be related, no one’s really sure as the translation thing just kinda disappeared & was never heard from again, & the details of project iris have been locked behind a secret facility & an nda. that whole thing is probably up in the air since their head of ar/vr left.