Google's Android XR smart glasses will hide faces from Gemini and ban real-time facial recognition

And with Google's widely anticipated Android XR smart glasses, built by Samsung in partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, arriving soon, the company details the safeguards in its own wearables.

Android XR glasses will blur bystanders' and users' faces In a post published by Android XR Vice President and General Manager Shahram Izadi (via 9to5Google), it detailed how Android XR smart glasses, including those non-Samsung glasses, will automatically redact or blur faces before images are sent to Google's servers for Gemini analysis and processing.

Third-party apps won't support live streaming Google also outlined several additional privacy safeguards built into Android XR smart glasses.

Notably, Play Store apps for Android XR glasses will be banned from using the cameras for real-time facial recognition or live-streaming.

One notable example involved a Harvard student who modified Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses into a real-time facial recognition device.