Google Gemini glasses, Digi Mart USA News: Google opened pre-orders on November 12 for its first glasses with Gemini, built with Samsung and the eyewear brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Warby Parker frames start at $395 and Gentle Monster frames at $449. The glasses go on sale in stores and online on December 10, initially only in the United States and South Korea.
According to Google’s announcement, the glasses include a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, open-ear speakers and a battery that lasts up to nine hours, with frames weighing around 41 grams. Gemini can answer questions about what the wearer is looking at, translate conversations and read small print aloud.
Google does not mention a display in the lenses. The glasses work with Pixel and Samsung phones as well as iPhones.
In a separate privacy post, Google says the glasses are designed to automatically redact bystanders’ faces before Gemini processes the visuals. Google states that camera visuals captured to answer a question are not saved in Gemini History and are not used to train AI models or target ads.
Data stored on the glasses and data sent to the phone or cloud for processing are encrypted.
Taking a photo or video for the gallery turns on an outward-facing LED. Google says sensors are designed to detect a covered or tampered light and block recording.
Buyers must agree not to record people without permission or in sensitive places, and Google can disable the glasses if those rules are broken. Play Store apps may not use the camera for social live-streaming or real-time facial identification.
Google’s wording leaves some questions open. The post does not guarantee the redaction works in every case, and it does not say whether redaction applies to photos and videos saved to the gallery or whether those are excluded from AI training.
Neither post states how long such images remain in the cloud or whether the LED lights up when only Gemini is using the camera.
Camera glasses have drawn privacy scrutiny before. Norway has considered a temporary ban on smart glasses, and owners of Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses must turn off AI training themselves.
Google has not said whether or when the glasses will come to Europe.
