Samsung releases Warby Parker and Gentle Monster smart glasses designed to work with your Galaxy flagship
Samsung's long-awaited smart glasses are finally here. Intelligent Eyewear is designed by Warby Parker and Gentle Monster in collaboration with Google.
Samsung has just released its Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses, with pre-orders already open and general availability starting from December 10. Two collections, designed with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, are available, with a combined total of 30 unique designs.
The Samsung Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses are currently only launching in the U.S. and South Korea. These glasses have been designed with your Galaxy flagship smartphones in mind, which will enhance the functionality of your glasses by handling some of the processing.
In addition, Samsung has taken its approach to privacy and user data very seriously. The Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses are designed with not just the wearer but also the people around them in mind.
Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses
Samsung Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses. | Images by Samsung
Offered in a diverse range of frames, colors, and sizes by Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, the Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses have something to offer to everyone. Samsung’s glasses aren’t just stylish, however, as the company’s partnership with Google and its flagship AI model Gemini has supercharged Intelligent Eyewear with practical artificial intelligence.
You can converse naturally with your glasses, asking them about landmarks you’re looking at or requesting turn-by-turn directions on Google Maps. The glasses can translate a menu or a sign in a foreign language for you or tell you what the dish you’re looking at is called.
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Users can place calls, respond to messages, be informed of important updates, or get a summary of pending notifications, all without having to use their hands. You can also use Samsung’s glasses to help you work, like by asking them to take a photo of a whiteboard in a meeting, summarizing what’s written on it, and saving it to a notes app.
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Samsung’s approach to privacy
Samsung is prioritizing user privacy. | Images by Samsung
The Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses are equipped with a 12MP HDR camera, four microphones, and open-ear speakers. Samsung isn’t taking privacy lightly with these glasses and has implemented a number of measures to ensure that users and the people around them in public remain at ease.
For starters, whenever the smart glasses are recording a video or taking photos, an LED will indicate to bystanders that the camera is in use. If this LED is not functioning or has been covered up, the glasses will refuse to enable the camera. Furthermore, the glasses will alert their user with a light on the inside accompanied by a sound whenever the camera is being used.
I suspect we'll start seeing these in public soon. | Image by Samsung
The glasses will also require age verification to be activated and to allow app downloads. If you’re under 18 years old, the Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses will not work for you.
When users are conversing with Gemini Live on their glasses, surrounding sounds will be filtered. People talking around the user will have their voices filtered as well to protect their privacy.
Samsung goes a step further, however. Intelligent Eyewear users can rest assured that visuals collected by Gemini will never be used for training AI models or even for targeted ads. Furthermore, when you ask your smart glasses about something that you’re looking at, the glasses will redact the faces of bystanders before responding.
The beginning of a new era
I can't wait for Samsung's smart glasses to take off. | Images by Samsung
Smart glasses aren’t a new concept in the slightest, but to see a major smartphone manufacturer enter the market gives me hope for a future where these glasses become a very common sight.
The Intelligent Eyewear glasses weigh around only 41 grams and can deliver up to nine hours of battery life. Combined with the charging case, the glasses can last up to 72 hours.
Samsung’s long-awaited Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses are now available for pre-order in the U.S. and South Korea. Both Warby Parker and Gentle Monster collections are launching in the U.S. while only the latter is coming out in Korea for now.
Hands-on demonstrations will be available at select Samsung retail locations from December 10, when the glasses will become available for purchase. Warby Parker models start from $395, and Gentle Monster models start from $449.
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Abdullah loves smartphones, Virtual Reality, and audio gear. Though he covers a wide range of news his favorite is always when he gets to talk about the newest VR venture or when Apple sets the industry ablaze with another phenomenal release.
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