Is OK Google over? The new Google glasses respond to Hey Gemini

To talk to the assistant of the new Google smart glasses you no longer have to say Hey Google. The company has opened reservations for its glasses with Gemini, designed together with Gentle Monster, Warby Parker and Samsung.

Beyond the available models themselves, it has caught our attention that the smart functions are now activated by saying Hey Gemini or touching the saddle. It’s a small change, but it shows how the Gemini name could soon be the activation word for the company’s assistant. We could be facing the end of the famous OK Google.

For now, Google has not clarified whether this formula will reach other devices, such as mobile phones or speakers, or what its equivalent will be in Spanish. In practice, the command serves the same purpose as always. That is, making requests without using your hands. Of course, in the case of glasses, you can ask about a mural in front of you, look at a poster to see if you have room on the calendar or ask them to add what you are seeing to the shopping list.

These are the glasses that debut the Hey Gemini

The glasses themselves are not new, as Samsung and Google showed them off in May during Google I/O. What arrives now are the definitive collections. The Gentle Monster one has six designs in colors such as dark red, pink, gray or yellow, starts at $449 and will be sold in the United States and South Korea.

The Warby Parker one includes three models, Alden, Reid and Wren, in optical or sun versions starting at $395. Most frames accept prescription lenses and work with Pixel phones, Samsung phones, and the iPhone.

They weigh some 41 gramsits battery lasts up to nine hours and the case allows it to be recharged up to seven times. They incorporate a 12 megapixel ultra wide angle camera and open speakers, which let you hear what is happening around you.

With them you can follow Google Maps directions, translate conversations in real time in more than 70 languages, listen to music or answer calls. They also debut Guided Vision, a function that describes the environment by voice to people who are blind or have low vision.

In terms of privacy, Google ensures that the images Gemini processes are not saved in history nor are they used to train models or display ads. It also says that the faces of people around you are automatically hidden before analysis. Likewise, a light warns when you are recording, the recording stops if that light is covered and they all have a switch to turn them off completely.

Pre-orders are now open and the glasses will arrive in stores on December 10but, as you see, these new glasses are not expected to arrive in Europe for now. Without a doubt, this tendency to leave out our market is something that little by little we are going to get used to.