Victoria Song
Here’s a look at the Warby Parker and Gentle Monster glasses.
Details are scant, but if you want to read about some of the capabilities, here’s my Android XR hands-on!
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An exclusive look at Google’s new teleconferencing experiments.
Sean Hollister
Jay Peters
Google’s AI world model can now generate experiences based on real world places.
When making an interactive experience with Project Genie, you can now pick a place in the US and Genie can use Street View data from that place for grounding. You can also prompt a style to change what that place looks like in your interactive AI-generated world.
Jay Peters
Google’s super expensive AI plan is getting cheaper.
It’s still expensive, though: Google AI Ultra plan, which used to cost $249.99 per month, now starts at $100 per month. There’s also a $200 per month option that includes access to Google’s Project Genie world model.
The two options for Ultra matches OpenAI’s approach for its Pro tier, which also now comes in $100 and $200 per month tiers.
That includes Xreal’s Project Aura, plus previously announced glasses with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker.
Victoria Song
Jay Peters
Sean Hollister
Petcube says it only uses hardware from China’s Meari.
On May 11th, I told you how a million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers due to the poor security in Meari’s cloud and app. Petcube says today that it uses camera hardware from Meari but not any of the company’s software, cloud services, or APIs.
