We have already seen some third-party helmets optimized for Assistant, such as the Bose QC 35 II, JBL Live or Sony WH-1000XM3, which allow you to interact directly with Google's digital help, but also notifications you read without having to touch your phone. The company now wants to facilitate the integration of its wizard into headphones and has partnered with Qualcomm to create a standard development kit to simplify this process.

The US chip maker has announced that its QCC5100 Series SoC, designed specifically for wireless headsets, now supports Google Assistant and Fast Pair wizards. This essentially means that manufacturers will be able to offer these features without additional effort.

As an example of what can be achieved with this new development kit, the two companies have designed a smart helmet reference concept to show how hardware manufacturers can integrate Wizard to their products. Hopefully, we will soon see more headphones and headphones with wizard, although I am not yet convinced that this feature is particularly useful on such devices.