Gemin-eyes
Dec 12, 2025•47 min
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Episode description
Welcome to episode 81 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner shares his experience with trying out some early samples of glasses running on Google's Android XR platform with Will and Damien. After a surprisingly impressive demo, is it time to start getting excited for the return of Google Glass-esque technology? The trio also dips into some new changes coming to Wear OS and take a quick look at the first One UI 8.5 beta, if only to ask: what's up with the iOS-ification of Android?
Subscribe Timecodes- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:58 - Google's AI glasses demo
- 33:43 - Wear OS updates
- 38:12 - One UI 8.5 and Android's design language
- 46:09 - Wrap-up
- Hands-on: Google Glass is now real with ‘monocular’ Android XR glasses coming in 2026
- Samsung and Apple split best-selling phones in Q3 2025, iPhone leads premium market
- Pixel Watch December 2025 update rolling out with Wear OS 6.1
- One UI 8.5 seems like a very nice, but small update [Video]
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