Developers can now make apps for Samsung's upcoming smart glasses

Google, in The Android Show: XR Edition, hinted that Samsung is developing smart glasses. While there’s no information about when the South Korean tech giant will launch it, developers can now start making apps for it.

During the show, Google also launched the Android XR SDK Developer Preview 3. Along with enhancements for headset APIs, it enables developers to make apps for smart glasses or AI Glasses, as Google calls them.

Google says that it lets developers build “augmented experiences for AI glasses using new libraries like Jetpack Compose Glimmer, a UI toolkit for transparent displays, and Jetpack Projected, which lets you extend your Android mobile app directly to glasses.” The brand adds “the SDK now includes powerful ARCore for Jetpack XR updates, such as Geospatial capabilities for wayfinding.”

With that, when Samsung launches Galaxy smart glasses, there may already be a plethora of apps tailored for the product. A large collection of apps at launch will offer the initial Samsung smart glasses buyers a better user experience than the early adopters of Galaxy XR users had. Speaking of which, the collection of apps tailored for the Galaxy XR headset is also increasing rapidly.