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 blurry.

Google just launched a ton of new products—including Gemini 2.0, which could power a new world of agents. And we got a first look.

Google is showing off an updated version of Project Astra, the all-seeing, all-hearing and all-remembering experimental AI assistant it showed a glimpse of earlier this year. Why it matters: Astra offers a preview for some of the ways future AI assistants will help navigate the physical world.

Google is entering its AI agents era with the introduction of Gemini 2.0 -- the company's next generation AI chatbot -- and a limited release of Project Astra, a computer vision-assisted AI agent that can see and analyze the world around you, the company said in a press release on Wednesday.

Top billing goes to Gemini 2.0—the latest iteration of Google DeepMind’s family of multimodal large language models, now redesigned around the ability to control agents —and a new version of Project Astra, the experimental everything app that the company teased at Google I/O in May.

Project Astra is meant to be a "universal AI agent" that works on tasks in everyday life via your phone's camera and voice recognition software. This will morph into smart glasses a la Meta's Ray Bans. Google CEO Sundar Pichai teased Astra in a video on X and Google posted a YouTube video showing Astra in action.

Google is working on a lot of AI stuff — like, a lot of AI stuff — but if you want to really understand the company’s vision for virtual assistants, take a look at Project A

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