Enter Android XR, the first new version of Android made for the Gemini era. Google says it’s built with Gemini at the core, enabling a brand new type of user interface that’s driven entirely by the way you interact with Google’s multimodal AI.

As you might have guessed, the XR in Android XR isn’t some weird Roman numeral moniker. Rather, it stands for eXtended Reality and is a new spinoff of Android built to unify XR products — mainly smart glasses and VR headsets — under a new set of standards and tools. It’s exactly how Android Auto is built for car infotainment systems, and Wear OS is built for smartwatches.

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    2 days ago

    Sooooo… high time to ditch Android, then? What’s a good open alternative without AI bs and spyware?