Google's interest in smart glasses is not a secret. The company unveiled the Android XR platform in December 2024 , showing off smart glasses prototypes to a limited audience. A few months later, Google was ready for a more public demonstration of the Gemini features built into the Android XR platform, offering Google I/O 2025 attendees a longer demo of unreleased Google smart glasses . Then, in December 2025, Google hosted an event on YouTube where it talked about AI smart glasses, unveiling the most daring Android XR smart glasses yet, Xreal's Project Aura . The actual launch of Google smart glasses, which some Gemini fans may be waiting for, seems to be very close. Google I/O 2026 could be the place where Google launches the first models. Google has been saying for nearly two years that smart glasses are part of its AI computing future, and AI has become central to Google's product strategy since ChatGPT took the world by storm in late 2022.…