Samsung is engaged on a Ray-Ban Meta glasses competitor with Google Gemini AI, The Data reviews.
The undertaking was greenlit earlier this yr, The Data’s Sylvia Varnham O’Regan writes, after intense debates inside Google round whether or not to persuade Samsung to construct full AR glasses or less complicated sensible glasses like Ray-Ban Meta glasses, with Google and Samsung executives touchdown on the latter.
The report comes slightly below a yr after Samsung filed a trademark for ‘Samsung Glasses’ within the UK, which might point out the product title.
Google Desires To Steal The Ray-Ban Partnership From Meta
Google reportedly needs to steal the Ray-Ban partnership from Meta for its personal Gemini glasses, however Mark Zuckerberg has a plan to cease it.
Samsung and Google could battle to promote glasses of this type with out Meta’s associate EssilorLuxottica, nevertheless. The corporate has a close to monopoly on the eyewear market worldwide, and its manufacturers like Ray-Ban and Oakley are among the many most recognizable on the planet.
In July, The Verge reported that Google wished to steal the EssilorLuxottica partnership from Meta for precisely this purpose, however failed. Final month Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced an settlement extending their partnership “into the subsequent decade” to develop “multi-generational sensible eyewear merchandise”.
Meta Extends Its Ray-Ban Partnership Into The 2030s
Meta and Ray-Ban’s proprietor have prolonged their partnership “into the subsequent decade” to develop “multi-generational sensible eyewear merchandise”.
Google and Samsung are additionally partnering on a high-end combined actuality headset to tackle Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, which has been within the works for years now. Google will deal with the software program whereas Samsung is dealing with the {hardware} utilizing Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. However a latest report suggests it could possibly be delayed as soon as once more, later into 2025.
