This is what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specifications in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, are scheduled to launch this fall.

Google and Samsung have been teasing the new glasses for some time, revealing the first two designs at I/O in May. Now there are two more frames: Both are unsurprisingly boxy, with a new set of square black glasses from Gentle Monster, and a more rounded red-brown pair from Warby Parker. Jane Choi, executive vice president who runs Samsung’s mobile experience division, said: CNBC That there are “more designs” on the way.

This was our first chance to see any of the four frames in person, though Samsung wouldn’t let me try them out — or even hold them up to my face. They’re all impressively lightweight, not much heavier than the thick-framed acrylic glasses I’ve been wearing, and barely any bigger, either. The speaker and microphone grilles are hidden along the stems, there’s a single button on the right with a power switch tucked inside on the left, and of course there’s a camera and recording LED mounted on the front. Much like Meta’s collaborations with Ray-Ban and Oakley, these glasses basically look like the regular glasses that most people would happily wear — privacy connotations aside.

The new glasses will be powered by Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip from QualcommIt’s the same silicone that powers the latest Meta smart glasses. Samsung says it will work for up to nine hours on a single charge, while the accompanying charging case provides up to seven additional charges.

You’ll be able to use Google’s Gemini or Samsung’s Bixby with the glasses, though the AI ​​features themselves look very familiar: message summaries, live translation, navigation instructions, and analyzing or describing what the cameras capture.

Speaking of which, just like the Meta, there is a recording LED when the camera captures video. Choi said Bloomberg Like the Meta glasses, the glasses will prevent recording if they detect that the LED is blocked or obscured. This wasn’t enough to prevent Meta’s trademark “skewed glasses” So we’ll have to see if Samsung and Google have other plans to address what Choi called “a common industry problem.”

Samsung still hasn’t revealed a specific release date or price for the upcoming glasses, but Choi described them as an “excellent” product.