The company will begin sending prototypes of its new augmented reality glasses into real-world testing.
The video shows the translation capabilities of the augmented reality glasses.
The public tests will involve a few dozen employees and a small group of other people, and will build off lab testing, Juston Payne, a group product manager at Google heading its glasses team, wrote in a post.
There are cameras, in-lens displays and mics in the prototypes.
According to an FAQ on the program, the main goal for the tests is to look at how the glasses perform in navigation, translation, and visual search.
Users won't be able to use the glasses while driving, playing sports, or operating heavy machinery because of the restrictions imposed by the search engine.
A video showing off the real-time translation capabilities of the glasses was released on May 11. There was a report in January that said that the release date was in four years. Silicon Valley giants are working on augmented reality devices. Apple presented a mixed reality device to its board in May, while Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to bring his company's augmented reality glasses to market by the end of the century.
Despite a broader market rebound and largely rising before the announcement of the augmented reality project, shares in the parent company of the internet giant rose slightly.
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