Android XR: Headsets and glasses enter the Gemini age.
Google unveiled Android XR, a platform that expands your reality to enable you to explore, interact, and create in novel ways, in collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm.
With the straightforward goal of transforming computing for everybody, it founded Android more than ten years ago. Besides phones, Android is utilized in tablets, watches, TVs, cars, and more.
Things are now moving forward into the future. AI developments are enabling more conversational and natural interactions with computers. This turning point makes it possible for new extended reality (XR) tools, such as glasses and headsets, to comprehend your intentions and the environment around you, enabling you to do tasks in completely different ways.
Android XR
Introducing Android on XR
Currently launching Android XR today, a brand-new operating system designed for this upcoming computer age. Android XR, developed in partnership with Samsung, brings beneficial experiences to glasses and headsets by fusing years of investment in AI, AR, and VR.
Building on the platform that made Android available to billions of people, the goal is to establish a thriving community of developers and device manufacturers for Android XR.
With tools like ARCore, Android Studio, Jetpack Compose, Unity, and OpenXR supported from the start, developers can quickly begin creating applications and games for future Android XR devices with today’s release, which serves as a preview for developers. It are paving the way for Qualcomm partners Lynx, Sony, and XREAL to create a broad range of Android XR devices that will satisfy the various demands of individuals and companies. Additionally, the developers are still working with Magic Leap on XR technologies and upcoming AR and AI products.
Using AI to help integrate technology with daily life
Android XR will first be available on headsets that change the way you work, watch, and discover. Next year, the first gadget code-named Project Moohan and manufactured by it will be on sale.
Wearing a headset allows you to seamlessly transition between being completely present in the real world and engaged in a virtual environment. With Gemini, to AI assistant, you can manage your smartphone and have discussions about what you’re seeing in addition to filling the area around you with applications and entertainment. Gemini can comprehend your intentions and assist you with planning, topic research, and task guidance.
Additionally, it’s redesigning some of your most beloved Google apps for wearable technology. You may use Google Photos in 3D to relive your most treasured moments or watch YouTube and Google TV on a virtual large screen. With Google Maps, you can travel the world in unexpected ways by using Immersive View to fly over cities and famous sites. Additionally, Chrome allows you to multitask easily with numerous virtual screens. With only a simple motion, you can even utilize Circle to Search to obtain information about whatever is in front of you.
Additionally, because it’s Android, your favourite Google Play applications for smartphones and tablets will function immediately, and additional games, apps, and immersive content designed for XR will be released in the upcoming year.
In the future, Android XR will also enable glasses for all-day assistance. Also hope that there will be a wide selection of fashionable, cosy glasses that you will love wearing every day and that integrate easily with your other Android devices. Google Android XR glasses will make the power of Gemini only a tap away, giving you useful information like message summaries, directions, and translations when you need it without requiring you to reach for your phone. Everything is in your direct line of sight or in your ear.
As was announced yesterday, it will shortly start testing prototype glasses running Android XR in the real world with a select few people. In addition to ensuring the company is working in a way that respects privacy for you and people around you, this will help us produce useful goods.
Building the XR ecosystem
The goal of Android XR is to provide a uniform, open platform for XR glasses and headsets. Users will benefit from having access to their favorite applications and a wider selection of devices. With the help of well-known Android tools and frameworks, developers can create experiences for a variety of devices on a single platform.
Currently extending an invitation to developers, manufacturers, and artists worldwide to collaborate with us in influencing this next phase of computer development.
