Last year at Google I/O, one of the most interesting demos was Project Astra, an early version of a multimodal AI that could recognize your surroundings in real-time and answer questions about them ...

To close out 2024, Google announced Gemini 2.0, it’s newest version of its AI model that will basically power all of its AI endeavors going forward. As a part of the announcement, Google showed off a ...

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At I/O 2024, Google's teaser for Project Astra gave us a glimpse at where AI assistants are going in the future. It's a multi-modal feature that combines the smarts of Gemini with the kind of image ...

During its Google I/O 2025 keynote on Tuesday, Google tossed around the Gemini name nonstop, to no one's surprise. It also spent some time talking about something called Project Astra, a key part of ...

Few tech-industry traditions are as time-honored as vaporware: stuff that gets publicly demoed well before it’s ready to ship. In some cases, the companies in question are just slower to finish their ...

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Google is slowly peeling back the curtain on its vision to, one day, sell you glasses with augmented reality and multimodal AI capabilities. The company’s plans for those glasses, however, are still ...

The Samsung Galaxy S25 will be the first family of phones to include Google's Project Astra, the companies announced Wednesday at Samsung's Unpacked 2025 event. This gives the phone the ability to ...

When I saw Google’s Project Astra, a real-time computer vision-based UI, last year, I was cautiously excited for the future—the future of smart glasses specifically. In its (admittedly very controlled ...