Google announced Tuesday during Google I / S 2025 that the ASTRA project – the low latency of the company, the Multimodal IA experience – will feed a range of new research experiences, the Gemini AI application and third -party developer products.
In particular, Project Astra feeds a new live research feature in Google Search. When using AI mode, the search function or the goal supplied by Google, the company’s visual search feature, users can click on the “Live” button to ask questions about what they see via the camera of their smartphone. Project Astra broadcasts a live video and sound in an AI model and answers with answers to user questions with little or no latency.
Unveiled for the first time on Google I / O 2024 via a demo of intelligent viral glasses, Project Astra was born from Google Deepmind as a means of presenting multimodal AI capacities almost in real time. Google now says that it builds these Astra Project glasses with partners such as Samsung and Warby Parker, but the company does not yet have a fixed launch date. What the company has is a variety of ASTRA project features for consumers and developers.
Google says that Project Astra feeds a new feature in its live API, a point of termination oriented towards developers which allows low -latency vocal interactions with Gemini. From Tuesday, developers can create experiences that support audio and visual inputs, and the native audio output – a bit like Project Astra. Google says that the updated live API also has improved emotional detection, which means that the AI model will respond more appropriately and includes the reflection capacities of the models of AI of Gemini.
In the Gemini application, Google indicates that video and project sharing capacities from Project Astra arrive at all users. While Project Astra already feeds the low latency conversations of Gemini Live, this visual entrance was previously reserved for paying subscribers.
Google seems convinced that the ASTRA project is the future for many of its products, and can even feed a completely new product category: smart glasses. Although this may be true, Google has still not set a launch date for the Astra Smart Glasses project he demonstrated last year. The company has offered some additional details about what these smart glasses look like, but they always seem far from reality.
