This is the future. Google showcasing how Gemini AI can be with you all the time and help you just like a human assistant

This will either excite you or freak you out – I feel like the most advanced Artificial Intelligence concepts and products will always be polarising like that.

What Google has demonstrated at their annual Google I/O event is a glimpse into the future, one that could be within our reach in within a year, but certainly one that shows a vision for what they are working on to harness the power of information, and AI.

Take a look at this:

What this demonstrates is how Google’s Gemini Live app can evolve to be “just another person in the room”, and while like all their AI they are competing directly with Open AI’s ChatGPT on this, the concepts and detail of this demo are mindblowing.

Bring up a user manual, scroll through that manual, identify things using the smartphone camera, interacting in a real-world human like way, even ignoring interruptions from another person.

This is a remarkable demonstration.

Then there’s the phone call that Gemini went off and made in the backround, to check if the Bike store had stock.

Clear demonstrations of a wide range of Google’s AI capabilities.

And frankly, very exciting.

Is it really possible today? Unlikely, but is this what Google is aiming for – for sure.

Pair that now with the hardware being developed in the market and there’s even more to be excited about.

Today, you can buy Apple Vision Pro and really, get not much more than Siri.

Or you can buy a pair of Meta Ray-Bans and use Meta AI to do a range of things from sharing photos on social media, working out where you are or describing a scene and learning about the place you’re at or the thing you’re looking at.

Now imagine what Google’s Gemini AI could bring to that.

We already know that they are working on Android XR along with Qualcomm and Samsung – with Samsung’s Augmented Reality headset due to be revealed this year.

Now bring in eyewear brands Gentle Moster and Warby Parker and we’re potentially going to see “sunglass style” XR glasses – very soon.

We are in the midst of a huge revolution in technology, like nothing we’ve seen before, and a wearable form factor will be a part of this transformation. Google has known that for well over a decade, if you remember Google Glasses? What next is what’s most exciting.

Trevor Long traveled to San Francisco with support from Google Australia