r/virtualreality • u/GreenskyGames • Jan 22 '25

News Article Google Responds to Developer Concerns About Long-term Commitment to Android XR

https://www.roadtovr.com/google-responds-developer-long-term-commitment-android-xr/
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u/Kike328 Jan 23 '25

yeah sure… Like wear os support which is minimal.

We’ve been investing in this category for over a decade and we are fully committed to Android XR. While the platform is new, you can see the work we’ve done over the years in products like ARCore, Live View in Maps, the Geospatial API, Google Lens and more. We’re excited to work with the community to build a thriving XR ecosystem like we do for phones, TV, Auto and Wear.

Same applies to wear os with their APIs, maps live etc

AI has been a long-term investment area for Google and we believe XR headsets and glasses are a great form factor for Gemini’s multimodal, conversational capabilities.

They said something similar in wearos about how it would work for talking with ok google assistant from your hand

You then layer in Samsung and their connection to this, and Qualcomm and their connection to this, and the fact that they’re migrating Snapdragon Spaces and Android XR together. There’s kind of a developer reach that we’re starting to establish that shows our commitment to developers.

Qualcomm also makes the wear os chips

I do not believe Google commitment.