Google is working on Android XR, its platform for smart glasses and mixed reality headsets, for some time now and has offered a first overview at the end of last year. During the recent TED2025 conference, Google offered the first live demo of Android XR in action on a pair of smart glasses prototypes, and now this demo is easily available to see.
Our only look at Android XR on smart glasses so far has been in a Video published by Google in December, Where the company has shown some examples of what the software looks like and what it will be able to do. But we have already seen clips like that for many smart glasses, and it rarely works in real life.
During the TED2025 conference, Shahram Izadi from Google led a conference where a demonstration of Android XR capacities was presented using a pair of prototype glasses and Nishtha Bhatia. In the demo, we can see the goal that displays Android XR. Izadi says the objectives support an order. He used the glasses on stage to show notes of speaker and said they connect to your phone and could use “all your phone applications”.
The demo shows the glasses and Android XR starts with the Gemini generating a haiku on demand, then quickly accelerates things by briefly accelerating Nishtha, then asking Gemini several seconds later on what she saw, asking if Gemini caught “the title of the white book on the agitation behind me”, which then recites immediately. Google previously teased this functionality as part of Project Astra, which is now available as part of Gemini Live on smartphones. The same is used to locate a key card on the shelf. Some simpler, but always impressive demos, include explaining a diagram, translate a sign in English, then translate this same sign in the Farsi language (Persian). Based on this Nishtha then speaks to Gemini in Hindi – without changing their framework – to which Gemini immediately respond to Hindi.
Continuing with XR applications, Gemini then examines a disc and is able to recognize it and find a song of this disc to play on demand. The navigation is then displayed with a head of head-to-head and a 3D card.
Following this, the same video plunges into Android XR on helmets using the Samsung Moohan project, which Izadi Réitère is launched later this year. This demo goes to examples of what Gemini can do in the helmet, which corresponds to our practical experience last year. Some demos include the immersive Google Maps view and the use of Gemini to get advice while playing Stardew Valley.
The full video can be viewed below (or On the Ted website). The prototypes of Google glasses used here would be a prototype of a product that will ultimately be published by Samsung, potentially next year.
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