This is what Samsung’s smart glasses look like

Samsung has given us our first chance to see its upcoming smart glasses, revealing two new designs and first specs, including a 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and eyewear brand Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, should launch this fall.

Google and Samsung have been teasing new glasses for a while, and they revealed the first two designs at I/O in May. Now there are two more frames: Both are unassuming boxes, with black glasses with black squares from Gentle Monster, and round, red-brown boxes from Warby Parker. Jaein Choi, vice president in charge of Samsung’s mobile experience division, said Price CNBC that there is “more art” on the way.

This was our first chance to see each of the four frames in front of me, though Samsung didn’t let me try them out – or even stop them in front of me. They’re both impressively light – not much heavier than the acrylic lenses I wear, but bigger than them too. Speakers and microphone grilles are hidden on the sides of the start, one button is on the right and the power switch is on the left, and of course there is a camera and LED recording that is placed on the front. Like Meta’s collaborations with Ray-Ban and Oakley, these look like normal sunglasses that most people happily wear – secretive details aside.

The new glasses will be supported by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chipthe same silicone that powers the latest Meta glasses. Samsung says it will last up to nine hours on a single charge, while the included case offers an additional seven charges.

You can use Google Gemini or Samsung’s Bixby with glasses, although the AI ​​features sound familiar: message summaries, live translations, navigation controls, and analysis or interpretation of camera data.

Speaking of which, like Meta’s, there is an LED recording where the camera is capturing video. Choi said Bloomberg that, like the Meta, the glasses will stop recording if they detect that the LED is blocked or hidden. This was not enough to prevent Meta from being named “distorting glasses,” so we’ll see if Samsung and Google have other plans to deal with what Choi called “the corporate sharing problem.”

Samsung has yet to reveal a firm date or price for the upcoming glasses, but Choi described them as a “premium” product.