Google says it is going to commit as much as $150 million to the buyer eyewear firm Warby Parker to collectively develop AI-powered good glasses primarily based on Android XR, the businesses mentioned on Tuesday throughout Google I/O 2025.
Google has already dedicated $75 million to Warby Parker’s product improvement and commercialization prices, the businesses mentioned in a press launch. Google says it is going to make investments a further $75 million, taking an fairness stake in Warby Parker, ought to the eyewear producer meet sure milestones.
At Google I/O 2025, Google additionally introduced partnerships with a number of corporations to develop good glasses with Gemini AI and AR capabilities, together with Samsung and Light Monster.
Google appears to be taking a web page out of Meta’s good glasses technique. Meta has discovered success partnering and investing within the Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica to develop its good glasses. A part of the rationale behind Ray-Ban Meta’s success is that the good glasses have a horny, acquainted design they usually’re being offered in Ray-Ban shops. It appears doubtless that Google can have the same relationship with Warby Parker, benefiting from the eyewear firm’s common body designs and maybe its retail shops.
Within the press launch, Warby Parker and Google mentioned they intend to launch a sequence of merchandise over time. Their first line of eyewear will launch “after 2025” and can incorporate multimodal AI with prescription and non-prescription glasses.
