The user simply talks to their glasses (the demo shared on Tuesday involved a Googler ordering a coffee online by merely talking to it), and the device, when synced, complies.

Google has dabbled in smart glasses a number of times over the years. It notoriously launched Google Glass years ago, which ultimately helped spawn the derogatory term “glassholes.”

The smartglasses space has changed a little bit since then, however. Lately, major companies – most notably Meta — and a small army of startups and smaller firms, have invested in the space.

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