This week, Google announced Android Wear: It’s software platform, Android, modified and optimized for wearables. Google promised that smartwatches running Android Wear will look good, as a result of the collaboration of Google with fashion companies such as Fossil.

Let us get this out of the way first, the collaboration has paid off massively: The Moto 360 and the LG G Watch look gorgeous and are perhaps the first smartwatches that actually look elegant and right for your wrist.

Moto 360

The Moto 360 looks great and minimal with it’s circular design. It has literally no bezels which makes it look….seamless.

It is indeed elegant with it’s presumably metal design (Motorola only said it was made with “premium materials”, not which ones.

It also takes advantage of gestures. For example, flicking your wrist will show you an alert for your next meeting. Neat.

Should you feel like owning a real watch, Motorola has thought ahead and has included the ability to set a analog watch faces for the watch. Motorola has shown off a few and they do look really good..

Check them out for yourself:

Motorala had said at MWC 2014 that it was working on a smartwatch that would fix real world issues such as design and battery life. Perhaps this is the smartwatch that Motorola was talking about.

Technical specs and other details haven’t yet been revealed. Motorola though has been kind enough to slip it out that the device will be available in a “variety of styles globally in Summer 2014.”

LG G Watch

The G Watch has a more squarish design and does indeed feel less attractive than the Moto 360. But make no mistake, the G Watch has an elegant design and is definitely better than that of the smartwatches currently in the market.

Moto X style voice recognition is present, meaning you can say ‘Okay Google’ to initiate voice recognition without even touching the device.

Meaning you can access Google Now without poking around.

LG says it has collaborated closely with Google to make the G Watch, essentially making the G Watch a Nexus device though LG hasn’t labelled it as such.

“The opportunity to work with Google on LG G Watch was the perfect chance for LG to really pull out all stops in both design and engineering,” says Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.

Details and tech specs are scarce and LG will presumably reveal them later on in the year.

LG says the G-Watch will be compatible with a lot of Android phones. LG is aiming for the second quarter of 2014 as the release date.

OVERVIEW

Smartwatches when they first started gaining grip in the consumer market, they were in essence unfinished products. They were ugly, bulky and were poorly thought of.

With Google taking up arms and joining the wearable race, smartwatches are in for a revolution, again.

Android Wear looks like a great platform, one which has the potential to make it big and go sky high like it’s mobile counterpart.

With ‘Okay Google’ voice recognition without touching the devices, it seems your Dick Tracy smartwatch dreams can finally come true.

And with the contextual card nature of Google Now, smartwatches are now more than just mere displays of your notifications: They are aware of your time and place and give you information relevant to that time and place i.e they provide the right information to you, at the right place and the right time.

With great designs, great platform, great features, voice recognition and Google Now, smartwatches are in for something and are the essence and the dream of what a smartwatch should be. The next generation smartwatches are incoming and are the devices that they should have been in the first place: The devices that come to the consumer’s mind when they think of smartwatches.

The Smartwatch dream has been realized and the wearables race is gaining eat. With Google in, Apple has to move fast and churn out a smartwatch that will make the world gasp…