Google announced that it has planned to test its AR prototype glasses next month in public. The latest AR glasses by Google will show real-time translations. But at the same time, the company wants to test them in the real world. According to sources, the AR headset project named “Project Iris” is scheduled to launch in 2024.
Juston Payne from Google, in a blog post, wrote, “This will allow us to better understand how these devices can help people in their everyday lives. And as we develop experiences like AR navigation, it will help us take factors such as weather and busy intersections into account — which can be difficult, sometimes impossible, to fully recreate indoors”.
As per the support page of Google, the company aims to perform testing a “small number” of AR glasses within specific areas in the US. As for the testers, they will have to go through “safety training, device protocol, and privacy”.
Furthermore, the company has also issued a warning that the glasses would have “audio and video sensors”, but they may appear to be ordinary glasses. According to Google, it wants to figure out case studies related to testing several options including navigational help or translating text. However, the company has cleared the air about not supporting videography or photography. The company says, “In that case, the image data is first scrubbed for sensitive content, including faces and license plates. Then it is stored on a secure server, with limited access by a small number of Googlers for analysis and debugging. After 30 days, it is deleted”.
