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Episode 19 · June 1, 2026 · 08:21

Google's New AI Glasses Are Wild!

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Google's new AI glasses are wild. Picture this. Woman stands on a stage. Her name is Nishtha Bhatia.

She works at Google. She's wearing what look like normal glasses. Nothing fancy. Clunky.

She never touches her phone. Not once. She taps the side of her glasses. She asks for a coffee.

The glasses order it. She asks what her unread texts say. The glasses read them out loud, right into her ear. She asks to add something to her calendar.

Done. All of it. Hands free. Phone still in her pocket.

This happened live at Google I-O 2026 on May 19th. That's Google's big yearly show where they reveal new stuff. And these glasses were the star. Now here's the part that made me sit up.

Nishtha asked her glasses to take her to the place she met her friend last week. She didn't give an address. She didn't say the name. She just said the place I met my friend last week.

And the glasses knew. They pulled up the route. Then they asked her something. They asked if she wanted to stop for her usual cold brew on the way.

The glasses remembered her coffee order. So she said, order my usual. And the glasses opened the coffee shop's app and bought it for her. By itself.

Think about that for a second. The glasses aren't just listening. They're remembering your day. They know where you go.

They know what you like. They know your habits. And they act on them. That's the real story here.

Most gadgets wait for you to tell them everything. These don't. They learn you. So before we go deeper, let me say one quick thing.

If you're watching this and feeling that little knot in your stomach that I'm falling behind feeling, I get it. It's fast. Tools like these glasses run on the same kind of AI helpers that can run tasks for you all day. And learning to use that stuff is exactly what we do inside the iProfit boardroom.

Four live coaching calls every week where we show you how to put these AI helpers to work in your own business hands-free so you spend less time on busy work and more time talking to customers. If you want help turning this kind of AI into real-time saved, the link is in the description. Come say hi. Back to the glasses.

Let me back up and tell you why this is such a big deal. Google tried this before, way back in 2015. They made something called Google Glass and it flopped. Hard.

The glasses were clunky. They looked strange. People made fun of anyone who wore them. The little camera freaked people out.

It just didn't work for normal life. Google quietly killed it. So for years, smart glasses were kind of a joke, a thing that failed. But it's been over 10 years now and the AI inside these new glasses is a whole different animal.

Back then, the glasses were dumb. They could show you a tiny screen and not much else. The glasses are powered by Gemini. That's Google's main AI brain.

The same one millions of people already use to write, plan, and answer questions. This time, the glasses can actually think. They can see what you see. They can hear what you hear.

And they can do things for you. Let me break down exactly what these glasses are because there are two kinds. This part trips people up so stay with me. The first kind is called audio glasses.

These have no screen at all. Just a tiny camera, tiny speakers built into the arms, and a few microphones. You talk to them, they talk back in your ear. Nobody around you hears it.

These are the ones coming first, this fall. The second kind is called display glasses. These have a small screen built right into the lens. You can see things floating in front of you.

Walking directions, live captions, little bits of info. Those are coming later, after the first ones. Most people will start with the audio kind, so let's focus there. Here's how you wake them up.

You say, hey Google, or you just tap the frame. That's it. Then you talk to Gemini like it's a friend standing next to you. And the things it can do are honestly kind of amazing.

You can look at something and ask about it. Say you're standing in front of a confusing parking sign, the kind with five rules, and you can't tell if you'll get a ticket. You just ask, and the glasses read it and tell you straight. Can I park here or not?

You can get directions by voice, turn by turn. And you can add a stop in the middle without stopping to fiddle with your phone. You can handle your messages without lifting a finger. The glasses read your texts to you.

You reply by talking. You can even ask them to sum up all your unread messages so you don't have to scroll through 50 of them. You can take photos and videos just by asking. And then edit them right there using Google's image tool called Nano Banana.

Snap, fix, done. Now let me tell you about the feature that got the biggest gasp. Live translation. At the show, two Google people stood across from each other.

One spoke Farsi, one spoke Hindi, and the glasses translated both into English in real time. So they talked. Now I'll be honest with you. Live demo got a little rocky.

Doing things live on a stage in front of the whole world is risky, and it stumbled for a bit. But for those few seconds when it worked, you could see exactly where this is going. Imagine wearing these and walking into a meeting with someone who speaks a language you don't, and you just understand each other. No app.

No typing. No holding up a phone between your faces. You just talk, and the words land in your ear in your language. For anyone who works with people from all over, that alone is huge.

Let me ask you something. How much of your day is spent looking down at a screen? Be honest. Texts, maps, emails, photos.

Looking up a quick fact, we pull our phones out 100 times a day, and every single time we drop out of the real world for a moment. We stop paying attention to the person in front of us. We stop noticing what's around us. These glasses flip that.

The whole idea is heads up. You keep your eyes on the world. You stay in the moment, and the AI feeds you what you need without you ever looking away. That's a different way of living with technology.

And once you try it, going back to looking down at a phone all day might feel old. Now here's a surprise that I did not see coming. These glasses work on iPhone too. Not just Android phones.

Both. That's a smart move by Google. Because tons of people, maybe most of the people watching this, use an iPhone. If Google had locked these to Android only, most folks couldn't use them.

By opening them up to iPhone, Google is saying they want everyone, not just their own crowd. And it tells you how serious they are about winning this. Because here's the thing. Google isn't alone in this race.

You may have heard of Meta's glasses. The Ray-Ban ones. Really well. Pairs sold in just one year.

That's a lot of people already walking around with AI on their face. Snap is making glasses. Alibaba is making glasses. Apple is rumoured to be working on them too.

But this isn't some weird experiment that will die in a year. The biggest companies on earth are all rushing into the same space. And that happens, you can bet it's going somewhere. Let me cover one more thing, because I know some of you are wondering about it.

What about the people around you? If your glasses have a camera, how do they know when it's recording? Google built in a small light. When the camera or the microphone is on, the light turns on so people nearby can see it.

It's a simple thing, but it matters. It's how they're trying to keep this from feeling creepy the way the old Google Glass did. When can you actually get these? The audio glasses, the first ones with no screen, are coming this fall.

They're on the way. The display glasses, the ones with the little screen in the lens, come after that. Google teamed up with eyewear brands like Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to make them actually look good, so you won't look like a robot wearing them. Google hasn't shared the price yet, so we've got a few months.

And that's actually good news for you, because it gives you time to get ready. Now let me bring this all the way back home to you and your business. Here's what I want you to take from this. The glasses are cool, but the glasses are not the real story.

The real story is the AI brain inside them. These glasses can order your coffee, remember your habits, read your messages, and run little tasks for you because of AI helpers that can take action on their own. That same kind of AI can already work inside your business right now, today, without any glasses at all. It can answer your customers.

It can follow up with leads. It can write your posts. It can handle the boring stuff that eats your whole day. The glasses are just one fun way to talk to it.

And that's the thing most people miss. They watch a video like this and think, cool gadget, I'll wait and see. The people who win aren't waiting. They're learning how this AI works now, so when the glasses, and the next thing, and the thing after that all show up, they're already way ahead.

You don't want to be the person learning all this from scratch a year from now while your competitor's already living it. So let me ask you straight. Do you actually know how to put an AI helper to work in your business yet? Not just chat with it, actually have it do tasks for you like the glasses did on that stage?

If the answer is not really, that's exactly what we fix inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Here's what you get. Four live coaching calls every single week where we show you step by step how to set up AI helpers that handle your messages, your follow-ups, and your busy work. The same kind of AI that's powering these glasses.

You get new tutorials every day. You get 30-day roadmaps so you're never guessing what to do next. You get a prompt library so you never stare at a blank screen. And you get a map of 2,800 other business owners so you can find people near you, connect, and get help anytime, day or night, because someone's always online.

We built it for normal business owners, not coders. People who just want their time back and more customers coming in. Link is in the comments and the description or come find us at the AI Profit Boardroom. And one more thing before you go.

If you want the full notes from this video plus over 100 real AI use cases just like the ones I shared today, join the AI Success Lab. It's our free community. You'll get all the notes from this video in there plus access to 75,000 members who are using AI every single day to get ahead.

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