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Mobile World Congress
A large-scale Google Android mascot (Android Bot) wearing a white-framed pair of Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses (Gen 2) is displayed at the ''Android Avenue'' exhibit during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2026. The mascot highlights the software integration between Meta's hardware and the Google Gemini ecosystem for Android. These smart glasses, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 platform, feature a dual 12-megapixel camera system capable of 1080p video recording and high-resolution photography. The demonstration at the booth focuses on the new ''Multimodal AI'' update, which allows the glasses to interpret the world through the lenses using Gemini Nano on-device processing and cloud-based Gemini Ultra for complex queries. The display showcases the glasses' open-ear audio system and the five-microphone array designed for advanced voice commands, highlighting the transition toward hands-free, AI-driven wearable computing within the Android 16 ecosystem. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto)
