Samsung says Google's Gemini glasses come in 30 designs. Google's own post shows nine.
Google, Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster opened preorders on November 12 for the first Gemini glasses. The press materials disagree on how many designs there are, and the compatibility fine print is worth reading before you order.
Google’s Gemini glasses are now something you can pay for. On November 12, preorders opened for the “Intelligent Eyewear” frames Google built with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, with sales starting December 10. The prices run from $395 to $489, according to Samsung’s US announcement.
The more interesting number is how many frames there are. Samsung’s headline says “30 distinctive designs.” Google’s launch post lists six Gentle Monster designs and three Warby Parker styles, so nine. Both can be true. It takes a footnote to see how.
Thirty or nine
Samsung’s footnote 1 says the Gentle Monster collection has 16 variations built on six frame styles, and the Warby Parker collection has 14 variations on three frame designs. Add 16 and 14 and you get 30. Colors, lens treatments and sizes do the multiplying.
| Source | What it counts | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Samsung press release (headline) | “Designs” | 30 |
| Samsung press release (footnote 1) | Variations: 16 Gentle Monster, 14 Warby Parker | 30 |
| Google blog post | Frame styles: 6 Gentle Monster, 3 Warby Parker | 9 |
| The Next Web | Styles, citing Bloomberg, Google and Samsung | 9 |
My read: nine is the honest count of shapes you’re choosing between. Thirty is a shelf number.
What you get for the money
Warby Parker’s three styles, Alden, Reid and Wren, start at $395, per Google. Gentle Monster’s range from $449 to $489 depending on the model, per Samsung. Google says prescription options are available for most Gentle Monster frames and a wide range of lens options for Warby Parker.
Samsung’s spec table lists a Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip with 2GB of memory and 64GB of storage. The water rating is IPX4. Both companies say the frames weigh about 41 grams and run up to nine hours per charge. Google says the charging case recharges them up to seven times, and Samsung puts the total at up to 72 hours with the case. The camera is a 12-megapixel ultra-wide. Google says Gemini can translate speech in more than 70 languages, and Google Maps gives turn-by-turn directions in your ear.
Google also points to Guided Vision, which describes surroundings aloud for blind or low-vision users, and a tie-in with Aira that streams the camera feed to a trained human interpreter. My read: that part sounds more useful than the poster-to-calendar demo, and it’s the one feature here I’d call new.
Read the compatibility line
Google says the glasses work with iPhones as well as Pixel and Samsung phones. Samsung’s spec table is narrower. It lists recent Galaxy phones on One UI 9.0 or higher, Pixel 7 and later on the September 2026 Android 17 update, and iPhone 13 and later (“min. 6GB RAM”) on iOS 26.6 or later. Samsung also says Bixby works only with Galaxy phones.
My read: that RAM condition probably rules out some iPhone 13 models, though neither company spells out which ones. Check the compatibility list on the Warby Parker or Samsung page before you put a deposit down.
Privacy claims, all from the vendors
Google says camera visuals from Gemini aren’t saved in Gemini History and aren’t used for model training or ad targeting. It also says the glasses redact bystanders’ faces before Gemini processes an image. An indicator light shows when the camera records, and the glasses are designed to stop if the light is covered. Samsung adds that users must be 18 or older, with age verification at activation.
Nobody outside the companies has tested any of that yet. Treat it as a promise. The Next Web notes that Meta’s recording light has been beaten with a $2 sticker, and says Google has banned such accessories from its shopping and ad platforms.
Where Meta sits
The Next Web reports that Meta shipped 81% of AI glasses in the first half of the year, citing Omdia, and that Meta sells own-brand glasses from $299. My read: Google is starting from behind and pricing about $100 above Meta’s cheapest pair. I wrote up Meta’s own lineup in Meta’s new glasses are a movie screen, a hearing aid, and one of them has no camera.
My read: the real test is December 10 and the weeks after. A glasses launch is easy to demo and hard to live with, and so far all the battery, translation and privacy numbers come from the companies selling them.
Note on sources
Prices, designs and specs come from Google’s blog post and Samsung’s US press release, both dated November 12. Meta market share figures are The Next Web’s, citing Omdia, and I haven’t checked them against Omdia directly. The Bloomberg report that The Next Web cites was not read.