About this episode
Welcome to episode 81 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner shares his experience with trying out some early samples of glasses running on Google's Android XR platform with Will and Damien. After a surprisingly impressive demo, is it time to start getting excited for the return of Google Glass-esque technology? The trio also dips into some new changes coming to Wear OS and take a quick look at the first One UI 8.5 beta, if only to ask: what's up with the iOS-ification of Android?
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00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Google's AI glasses demo
33:43 - Wear OS updates
38:12 - One UI 8.5 and Android's design language
46:09 - Wrap-up
Hosts
Abner Li
Damien Wilde
Will Sattelberg
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