Google opens preorders for Gemini smartglasses from $395

What went on sale

Preorders for the first smartglasses running Google's Gemini assistant opened on 12 November 2026, through the websites of the eyewear makers Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Google built the software, Samsung supplied the computing hardware inside the frames, and the two eyewear brands designed the shapes.

Warby Parker's range covers three frames named Alden, Reid and Wren, in Pine, Saddle and Jet Black, with standard optical or sun lenses. Prices begin at $395, and the company sells only in the United States. Gentle Monster has six styles, whose names Google has not disclosed, in dark red, pink, gray and yellow with clear, tinted, blue or brown lenses. Those start at $449 and go on sale in the US and South Korea.

How the glasses work

There is no display in the lenses. The wearer starts the assistant by saying 'Hey Gemini' or touching a sensor on the frame, and the experience is meant to resemble Gemini Live on a phone. Because it is the same assistant used across Google's products, it can draw on the user's data and preferences, answer questions, give Maps directions by voice, or add an event from a poster to a calendar.

A 12 MP wide-angle camera lets Gemini see what the wearer sees. Open-ear speakers direct sound to the wearer, and Google says the microphones are built not to pick up other people's speech. Gemini Guided Vision provides spoken descriptions for people with impaired sight. Google puts the frame weight at about 41 grams before lenses, and the company has published only starting prices that include non-prescription lenses.

Privacy limits Google is promising

Google says its rules cover both the person wearing the glasses and the people around them. A recording light stays on while the camera works, and the device detects tampering with that light and refuses to record if it has been covered or altered. Every model has a physical off switch. The terms of use require users to agree not to film people without consent or in sensitive places, and Google says it may disable glasses remotely if it learns the rules were broken.

Google goes further than Meta's camera glasses in some respects: no app in the Play Store may stream video live to social media, including YouTube, and real-time facial recognition is not allowed. Faces are automatically blurred before video is sent to Google for processing. Images and video from the glasses are not stored in Gemini history, according to Google, and are not used to train models or target ads. Voice chats with Gemini get the same treatment as on other Gemini endpoints, which Google does not describe as equally protected, though users can delete them. Footage is encrypted on the device and in transit but not on Google's servers; Google says it is working on Private AI Compute for glasses, which would keep data isolated during processing.

What is not settled

Google has not named the Gentle Monster styles or given full prices for prescription lenses, which will set the final cost. The company also has not said when Private AI Compute will reach the glasses. The utility of the product rests on Gemini's reliability, and Google's own assistant still makes errors on simple tasks such as calendar entries and image recognition.