Samsung's Gemini Glasses Launch 10 December From $395: What They Do
Samsung's Gemini glasses with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker launch 10 December in the US and Korea from $395. Features, specs, battery and privacy.
Image: SamsungSamsung's intelligent eyewear, its first glasses with Google's Gemini built in, goes on sale on 10 December in the US and South Korea, and pre-orders opened on 12 November. The lineup comes in 30 designs from two eyewear brands, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. In the US, Warby Parker Intelligent Eyewear starts at $395 and Gentle Monster Intelligent Eyewear costs $449 to $489 depending on the model.
Samsung and Google first showed glasses with both brands at Google I/O in May. The glasses have no display: you talk to Gemini and hear it through open-ear speakers, while a camera gives it what you're looking at.
Prices, frames and where to buy
- Warby Parker Intelligent Eyewear: from $395, 14 variations of 3 frame designs with several widths and lens options, US only.
- Gentle Monster Intelligent Eyewear: $449 to $489, 16 variations of 6 frame styles, in the US and South Korea.
Warby Parker sells them in its stores and online, and Gentle Monster through its official online store. Select Samsung stores will have hands-on demos from 10 December. Samsung hasn't announced a launch in other countries.
What you can do with them
- Ask about what you see: identify a landmark or an object, then keep asking follow-up questions.
- Capture and summarise: photograph a whiteboard in a meeting, ask Gemini for the key points and save them to Samsung Notes.
- Translate and navigate: translate a menu, or get turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps.
- Calls and notifications: the glasses group and summarise notifications, read important ones aloud, and let you answer messages and calls by voice.
Samsung says translation and navigation features vary by language, region and service.
Specs and battery
- Weight: around 41 g; 39.6 to 43.9 g for Gentle Monster frames and 40.4 to 42.6 g for Warby Parker, with standard lenses
- Camera: 12MP HDR, for photos, video and giving Gemini visual context
- Audio: open-ear speakers and four microphones
- Chip: Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1
- Battery: up to nine hours in mixed use, and up to 72 hours with a fully charged case
The glasses are designed to work with Galaxy phones and hand part of the processing to the connected phone. Samsung's announcement doesn't say which other phones are supported.
Privacy and age limits
An outside LED lights up when the camera takes photos or video, and the wearer gets an inner light and a sound. If the outside LED is covered or not working, the camera won't capture. Samsung says images Gemini sees aren't used for AI training or ad targeting, bystanders' faces are automatically blurred out before Gemini answers about what you're looking at, and other people's voices are filtered out in Gemini Live conversations. The glasses are for adults only: activation and app downloads require age verification for users 18 and over.
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Google has since rolled out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, its fast Gemini 4 model, in Search and the Gemini app.
