Sitting on a couch in my living room, wearing a cutting-edge mixed-reality headset, I raise my hand to control what I'm seeing. In my vision is Junji Ito's new book, Moan. I pinch and hold it with my fingers, then circle the book in the air. A Google search result pops up about the book, ready to show me more.

Circle to Search is a thing on Android phones, and now it's a thing in everyday reality while I wear Samsung Galaxy XR . Maybe eventually the feature will come to smart glasses, but in the present, I have to wear a $1,799 headset to make it happen.

Galaxy XR is sort of like a half-price version of Apple's Vision Pro , or a more expensive Android and Google-enabled Meta Quest . It's both, really, but it's also a foot in the door to a wave of AI smart glass

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