As Google’s VP of XR, Shahram Izadi, told Road to VR, "Android XR is a main branch of Android, not just a layer on top like Daydream. It’s an Android vertical." ...

Google had a hefty presence at Augmented World Expo 2025, with several panels dedicated to selling developers on the idea that Android XR will be the next big thing for VR, XR, AR, and smart glasses.

Google hasn’t made a “full determination” on whether it’ll publicly provide the source code for Android XR, though, so it remains to be seen whether any enterprising startup will be able ...

Google says that mobile and tablet apps from Google Play will work with Android XR "right out of the box," with more immersive content made for XR coming in 2025.

Google showed off a live translation feature for Android XR with a smart glasses prototype that the company built with Samsung. That seems genuinely useful, as do many of the accessibility-minded ...

Google unveiled Android XR in December 2024, an operating system based on Android designed to support XR devices, including smart glasses and headsets. Now, the company's first-ever AR glasses ...

Google's Gemini is built into XR, so I can ask my glasses to give me more information on whatever I'm looking at. In the Lilliputian-size demo shed, I asked Gemini about a couple of paintings on ...

Google's latest push into extended reality is taking shape. While the company isn't entirely ready to show off any products just yet, it has laid out a vision for a unified Android XR ecosystem ...

On stage at Google I/O, Google executives demonstrated how the Android XR glasses will be able to send messages to friends, make appointments, snap photos, and translate conversations in real-time.

Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system ...

Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm have been working on an XR platform for a while now, with Samsung recently noting that it was “coming this year.” Unfortunately, it looks like we’ll need to ...