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It seems like every tech company is flirting with wearable AI tools, but the way those tools are taking shape is all over the place. Glasses here With dead and Coming soon Googlewhile OpenAI hardware project With Jony Ive remains a mystery. Apple, meanwhile Glasses can also release. Or maybe not.
A new report from The Information says Apple Work on a small pin The size of an AirTag will have its own camera and function as an AI wearable device. Why? Right now, Apple has nowhere else to put an outward-facing camera. Cameras are the key component of any AI-powered service that wants to not only respond to your voice, but also give you feedback about what you see in the room.
Humane’s AI pin was a failed product, but it’s the first to really try to be an alternative to AI glasses.
Will the pin serve as a starting point for the glasses?
Cameras are a big part of the reason why AI glasses came about. It’s relatively easy to put a camera in an eyeglass frame near your eyes and have it work with artificial intelligence to recognize the things you see and provide advice and information. A pin or pendant provides a way for an AI to “see” the world without having to wear a pair of glasses. A lot of companies have I’ve already tried thisor They’re still tryingwith and Without cameras.
In my view, Apple’s collective wearable ecosystem gives it an advantage over competing AI wearable competitors. Take AirPods, for example.
Multiple reports have said that new AirPods Pro models will be coming this year With infrared cameras Which can recognize hand gestures. For regular use of AirPods, this seems like overkill. But to interact with artificial intelligence? This may be true, especially if gesture controls are coming that could mimic what Meta does with her Neural wristband. And if combined with a camera-equipped Pin, perhaps it could all work as a display-less experience, so no need for smart glasses.
I guess I’d just prefer good glasses that do all of this, but here’s the thing: it’s not easy to do right now, and smart glasses still often have less than a full day’s battery life. However, Apple may have its sights set on smart glasses that have displays on board as a sort of next evolution of what it has already established. Vision Pro. For this reason, the glasses may have to wait a little longer.
Meta’s Ray-Bans (top) sitting on a Vision Pro (bottom). Apple still doesn’t have glasses yet, but it does have earbuds, watches, and plenty of gesture control capabilities.
How many Apple products will be connected to artificial intelligence? And when?
In the next few years, AirPods became gesture-enabled, with gestures enabled Apple watches (any Already supports taps (and wrist vibration) and wearable devices such as camera-equipped studs could begin to lay the foundation for glasses or as an accompaniment. The question is how useful it will actually be.
I’m as excited about future technology as anyone you’ll meet, but I don’t want to wear the AI pin. I’ve done it before, and I don’t like the idea of doing it again. Apple may need to work with its competitors on artificial intelligence to make its wearables attractive.
Artificial intelligence partnership between Apple and GoogleThe Gemini website, based on Gemini, hints at AI advances that may be coming to Apple products soon. Mark Gurman reports in Bloomberg Siri will be rebuilt As a generative AI chatbot. Gemini can already do a lot of live and camera-assisted AI Google and Samsung will hire On a new wave of smart glasses this year. Apple could do the same, and even work on enhancing AI awareness in its Vision Pro headset.
When I see news about the AI pin, I see it as just one piece of a hardware puzzle that includes AirPods and Watches — Apple accessories that work together. Sure, a pin would be another thing to carry, but at least it would be cheaper than glasses and bypass any need to know about prescription support.
Either way, this reported pin isn’t supposed to arrive until 2027. Apple may be showing an early preview this year, just as it has done with future products like the Vision Pro, Apple Watch, and HomePod in the past.
Something I’m keeping an eye on is Apple’s fully planned AI development, which could finally happen after the disappointing launch of Apple Intelligence. I haven’t seen camera-powered AI services really wow me yet on glasses, but the potential is clearly there. Apple looks set to dive into this game soon too, whether it’s on our faces, pinned to our shirts, or who knows where else. But then they have to figure out how to better design exactly what we’re going to use this camera-enabled AI for in the first place.