At MWC 2025, Google confirmed that its experimental Project Astra assistant will roll out widely in March. It seems the feature has started reaching out to users, albeit in a phased manner, beginning ...

Google unveiled Project Astra last year at I/O, showing off nascent AI technology that allows mobile users to talk to Google's AI in real time using conversational language. You might ask the AI to ...

Last year at Google I/O, one of the most interesting demos was Project Astra, an early version of a multimodal AI that could recognize your surroundings in real-time and answer questions about them ...

Few tech-industry traditions are as time-honored as vaporware: stuff that gets publicly demoed well before it’s ready to ship. In some cases, the companies in question are just slower to finish their ...

We’re quickly entering the realm of AI that is useful, and key to this is Project Astra, Google’s new universal AI agent that is helpful in everyday tasks. Oppo, Honor, Motorola and Tecno have all ...

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Google has released a prototype of Project Astra’s AR glasses for testing in the real world. The glasses are part of Google’s long-term plan to one day have hardware with augmented reality and ...

UPDATE: May. 19, 2025, 1:36 p.m. EDT This article has been updated with new information from 'The Android Event,' the Android-focused mini I/O event held on Tuesday, May 13. The latest news from ...

Google is slowly peeling back the curtain on its vision to, one day, sell you glasses with augmented reality and multimodal AI capabilities. The company’s plans for those glasses, however, are still ...

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If there was a star of last year's Google I/O, it was Project Astra, Google's attempt to build an AI-powered assistant that can see what you see, act on what you say and — perhaps most impressively — ...