Google has unveiled plans for “intelligent eyewear,” the company’s foray into AI-powered smart glasses. The announcement, made at the Google I/O 2026 conference on Tuesday, comes amid a growing backlash against smart glasses over privacy concerns. The company is not referring to its products as “smart glasses,” however, as the term has gained notoriety among privacy advocates and government officials. Download the SAN app today to stay up-to-date with Unbiased. Straight Facts™. Point phone camera here The first product in Google’s intelligent eyewear line, known as “audio glasses,” will launch in the fall. Google says it will roll out its second product, known as “display glasses,” later. The audio glasses, developed in partnership with Samsung and eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, let users speak with Google’s AI chatbot Gemini and receive responses through ear speakers in the glasses. The display glasses, also powered by Gemini, will display information such as translations and turn-by-turn directions right in front of the wearer’s eyes. Intelligent eyewear users will be able to connect the smart glasses to either their iOS or Android devices to manage calls, send texts, play music and take photos and videos. While both models will allow for recording video, a press release from Google only mentions the capability once. The announcement signals Google’s first attempt to return to the smart glasses space since it introduced “Google Glass” in 2013. The project was pulled in 2015 after pushback from the public, which referred to wearers as “Glassholes” because of the technology’s intrusive nature. Smart glasses remain in a controversial space, especially in light of plans by Meta to introduce facial recognition into its own product. A memo from last May, first reported by The New York Times, revealed Meta’s plans to introduce facial recognition to its Ray Ban smart