- Android XR was presented by Google at E / S 2025
- It relies strongly on AI to offer many of its features such as live translation
- Several different glasses of glasses will provide Android XR features
At Google I / O 2025, Google finally gave us what we all expected (well, what I expected): an appropriate Android XR showcase.
The new Google operating system designed for Android helmets and Android glasses has been tackled as the next big rival of the Meta Horizon operating system – the software that feeds the meta quest 3 and Quest 3S – and we finally have a better image of the way it accumulates.
Admittedly, the window was a little short, but we know several new details on Android XR, and here are four that you need to know.
1. Android XR has Gemini in his heart
Although I discuss Google’s Android XR showcase was not as deepened as I wanted, it showed us what the operating system worked at the base: Google Gemini.
Google’s advanced AI is the determining function of the operating system (at least that’s how Google poses it).
Gémini in glass can recommend a place to eat ramen, then offer you on screen instructions to find out where to find it, it can do a live translation, and on a helmet, it can use the immersive view of Google Maps to carry you practically to any destination you ask.
In particular on the glasses, this completely hands -free approach – combined with cameras and a head -up display – seems to be Google Gemini in its most useful form. You can get the assistant’s help as quickly as you can ask, no groping to put your required phone.
I want to see more, but it certainly looks like a solid upgrade on the Meta AI similar function than the offer of Smart Ray-Ban glasses.
2. Android XR is for more than Samsung
Before Google I / O, we knew that Samsung was going to be an Android XR key partner – alongside Qualcomm, which provides all the Snapdragon chipsets necessary to power the Android XR equipment.
But we now know that several other companies collaborate with Google.
Xreal presented the Aura project, which will bring Android XR to an improved version of its attached glasses that we know (like the Xreal One) – will have complete with a camera processor and Snapdragon.
Then, Google also teased gentle Monster and Warby Parker glasses, which implies that it adopts Meta’s approach in partnership with fashion brands, rather than traditional technological brands.
In addition, given that Gentle Monster and Warby Parker offer a very different design aesthetic, it will be good news for people who want various fashion choices for their new intelligent glasses accessories.
3. MOOHAN project still arrives “later this year”
The Android XR Moohan helmet project should always be launched in 2025, but Google and Samsung have not yet confirmed the specific release date.
I was hoping that we would get something more concrete, but the confirmation continues that Moohan will land in 2025 is better than it is delayed.
Google and its partners did not want to give us firm dates, in fact. Xreal calling on his project will have the second official Android glasses XR suggest that he will land some time after Moohan, but before anything else – however, we will have to wait and see what’s going on.
Google has certainly treated the largest actor in XR – Meta, with its very popular quest helmet equipment – a few strokes and gave its rival something to fear.
However, this showcase is far from being a finisher, especially not in the helmets.
Meta’s Connect 2025 showcase in September should show us similar technologies and features, and depending on the output dates, Meta could beat Android XR in punch.
That said, competition will only be a good thing for us, consumers, because these rivals are fighting on the price and the characteristics to encourage us on one side or the other. Unlike previous battles in the XR space, it certainly seems to be a balanced fight and I am delighted to see what is happening next.
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