{"id":86104,"date":"2026-05-19T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=86104"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:38:58","slug":"samsung-and-google-give-first-look-at-new-intelligent-eyewear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-google-first-look-new-intelligent-eyewear\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung and Google Give First Look at New Intelligent Eyewear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd<\/a>. and Google today unveiled new intelligent eyewear1<\/sup><\/a> at Google I\/O 2026 by giving a first look at two premium styles created with eyewear partners Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Designed to work as a companion device to a mobile phone<\/a>, the new eyewear enables users to access help through voice interaction and connect seamlessly to their phones, all through a familiar form factor.<\/p>\n

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Two premium intelligent eyewear designs from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.<\/h6>\n

Co-created with the eyewear partners, the intelligent eyewear combines breakthrough AI capabilities<\/a> with comfort and style, merging Samsung\u2019s leadership in hardware engineering and Google\u2019s AI technology with premium eyewear design. Each eyewear brand brings a distinct design approach to the device. Renowned for their legacies in fashion eyewear, Gentle Monster presents styles with disruptive yet refined aesthetics, while Warby Parker showcases refined and timeless designs.<\/p>\n

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Built to understand the world alongside users in real time, the new intelligent eyewear provides everyday support while keeping users hands-free and heads-up. Users can access navigation assistance by simply asking Gemini with their voices, receive personalized suggestions such as a nearby coffee shop on their walking route, or even place an order for pickup. Users can also receive summarized notifications for important texts and add events to their calendars. Additional features include real-time translations with audio that matches the speaker\u2019s voice, as well as the ability to translate text on menus or signs in the user\u2019s line of sight. Working seamlessly within the Galaxy ecosystem<\/a>, the device helps users easily manage everyday tasks or effortlessly capture photos, all without taking their phone out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The two designs reflect Gentle Monster\u2019s disruptive yet refined aesthetics and Warby Parker\u2019s refined, timeless designs.<\/h6>\n

\u201cThis intelligent eyewear marks an important step in Samsung\u2019s vision for AI<\/a>,\u201d said Jay Kim, Executive Vice President and Head of Customer Experience Office, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics. \u201cWith this new AI form factor, we are further expanding the Galaxy device ecosystem<\/a>, where each device is optimized to deliver unique AI experiences that best fit each form.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIntelligent eyewear represents a powerful step forward in our shared vision with Samsung to make AI more helpful and accessible in everyday life,\u201d said Shahram Izadi, Vice President and GM of Android XR at Google. \u201cCombining the best of Google\u2019s AI and the Android ecosystem together with Samsung\u2019s leadership in mobile hardware<\/a> and Gentle Monster and Warby Parker\u2019s premium design, we are helping users stay connected and fashionable in a more natural, hands-free way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cIntelligent eyewear should feel as emotionally expressive as it is technologically advanced,\u201d said Hankook Kim, Founder and CEO of Gentle Monster. \u201cOur vision was to merge fashion and technology in a way that feels bold, beautiful and human, bringing Gentle Monster\u2019s disruptive design identity into a new era of intelligent eyewear with Samsung<\/a> and Google.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Eyewear is deeply personal, which is why every detail matters when integrating advanced technology into frames people wear every day,\u201d said Dave Gilboa, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Warby Parker. \u201cOur Intelligent Eyewear is designed to feel intuitive, combining Warby Parker’s signature design with precision optics and exceptional comfort to help people stay focused on the moments in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first collections of intelligent eyewear are scheduled to launch this fall in select markets, with additional details to be announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n

1<\/a> Availability may vary depending on market. All functionalities, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, components, performance, availability and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Created in partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, the new intelligent eyewear combines AI into everyday wearability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":86106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29718,29738],"tags":[953,29663,434],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-86104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product","category-product-mobile-wearables","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-google","tag-wearable"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19111828\/Thumbnail-Samsung-and-Google-Give-First-Look-at-New-Intelligent-Eyewear-600x600.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19111828\/Thumbnail-Samsung-and-Google-Give-First-Look-at-New-Intelligent-Eyewear-424x283.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":29738,"name":"Wearables","slug":"product-mobile-wearables","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29738,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29720,"count":181,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/product-mobile\/product-mobile-wearables\/","term_path":"product\/product-mobile\/product-mobile-wearables"},"badge":"Press Release","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86104"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86123,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86104\/revisions\/86123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86104"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=86104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}