“Intelligent Glasses” is apparently only a week away.
Warby Parker appears to have one-upped Google and revealed when the company’s new version of smart glasses will be available for pre-order. According to Warby Parker’s third quarter earnings release, the brand’s Intelligent Glasses collection will open for orders on November 12.
“One week from today, November 12, we will begin accepting pre-orders for our first collection of smart glasses and we look forward to delivering customer orders during the holiday season,” said Dave Gilboa, co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. “We can’t wait for our customers to experience these remarkable products for themselves.” »
Warby Parker hasn’t given any indication of how much these smart glasses will cost, but interested customers can already sign up for time slots to demo the glasses in-store. Gentle Monster, one of Google’s other smart glasses partners, will also sell smart glasses, but it hasn’t said when they will be available outside of a vague fall window.
Engadget has reached out to Google for more information on the smart glasses launch and whether the Gentle Monster models will also be available on November 12. We will update this article if we receive a response.
Google announced its collaboration with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster in 2025, and gave a better look at the smart glasses models that will be available to launch at this year’s Google I/O. All glasses will run an audio version of Android XR, Google’s new augmented and virtual reality software platform, feature cameras, and offer easy access to Gemini, the company’s AI assistant. Google also showed off proper AR versions of its glasses, but it’s not clear whether they’ll be available anytime soon.
Android XR technically launched on the Samsung Galaxy Google and its partners are also developing Android XR in a much less smart glasses friendly environment. Thanks to some well-documented misuse of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses — issues that Meta has attempted to address with software updates — there’s a growing distrust of people wearing cameras on their faces, something that Google’s remarkably similar approach doesn’t seem ready to change.
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