Google's second try at computer glasses translate conversations in real time


Alphabet Inc and Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai speaks at Google's annual I/O developer conference at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 11, 2022. Google/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) -The science-fiction is harder to see in Google's second try at glasses with a built-in computer.

A decade after the debut of Google Glass, a nubby, sci-fi-looking pair of specs that filmed what wearers saw but raised concerns about privacy and received low marks for design, the Alphabet Inc unit on Wednesday previewed a yet-unnamed pair of standard-looking glasses that display translations of conversations in real time and showed no hint of a camera.

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