Apple Is Planning Smart Glasses With and Without AR (theverge.com) 19
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has "made progress" on a chip for a product that could rival the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The company is also reportedly working on glasses that use augmented reality. The Verge reports: The chip is apparently based on the chips Apple uses for the Apple Watch, though the company has removed parts and is being designed in such a way that it can handle the "multiple cameras" that the smart glasses might have, Bloomberg reports. Apple wants mass production of the chip to start by the end of 2026 or sometime in 2027, so the glasses themselves could come out within that timeframe. [...] Apple is developing chips for camera-equipped Apple Watch and Airpods as well, and the goal is for those chips to be ready "by around 2027," Bloomberg says. The company is also developing new M-series chips and dedicated AI server chips, per the report.
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Re: I pray (Score:2)
I only care about his stance on chicken.
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Whoosh. I would use an exclamation point, but since this is dark humor territory, I will simply leave you to figure out what I meant on your own and without emphasis.
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That the chicken came first, since God created the chicken which later laid eggs?
Earbud cameras? Digital guide dog? (Score:2)
Or is the camera on the earbud vertical shaft, I suppose that could face forward? Or even cooler, it could rotate and the bottom of the column like security cameras. Perhaps even better for a digital guide dog?
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I think the earbud cameras are looking inward. And if they can see each other, they know they have a loyal Apple customer.
What a time to be alive! (Score:2)
"Hey Siri Specs, use AI to remove all clothing from the people in front of me and AirDrop photos and video to every iPhone within range."
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When Chris Christie or Ginni Thomas walks in front of you, you'll beeline to the Apple Store screaming for a refund.
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I think that you're confusing Siri Specs for the inevitable $200 Android knockoff version that comes 18 months later.
If we learned anything from the Apple Intelligence rollout debacle, it's Apple is deathly afraid of the scenario you just mentioned and neuters the hell out of what the AI can do. If anything, people will get pissed off when they get blocked from adjusting the hemlines on their dress photo by more an an inch.
Why? Someone tell me why? (Score:1)
Why would I want smart glasses? To take pictures to be a "content creator"? Give me a break. Could some please explain to me the value proposition here? Or is this just another example of companies desperate to push technology? It seems like a miss.
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People often find unexpected uses for such.
For example, Al Bundy & show writers failed to anticipate in the mid 80's that PC's would be a great source of porn in a few more years*.
I'm not saying the killer app will be porn, but probably something as equally insipid. Maybe AI dating guesses/scores next to people based on social media posts? Who knows.
* I think they should have made the PC slowly display a teaser upper-portion of a playboy model (per modem download), and just before the raster line gets t
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Correction: "at which stage..." instead of "and which stage..."
Also, the show in question may have been made in the late 1980s or early 90's. MS-Windows didn't really go mainstream until '92, when 3.1 came out. 3.0 was too friggen buggy, and had too few apps. Amiga's were kind of niche.
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I think that's the wrong question. The correct question is: why does the *vendor* want you to have smart glasses without AR?
The answer is to capture in more detail than ever before your attention and consciousness. The devices will likely be able to tell what you are looking at, and be able to correlate it to things like buying behavior and, possibly in conjunction with a health tracker, your physiological responses. They might even include eye tracking.
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Why would I want smart glasses? To take pictures to be a "content creator"? Give me a break. Could some please explain to me the value proposition here? Or is this just another example of companies desperate to push technology? It seems like a miss.
For me it would be to identify people around me and provide their name, how I know them (for those I rarely see), and any pertinent info that may be of interest for starting / continuing a conversation. Even with my direct work colleagues, there's something like 8+ kids that I'm trying to track names, approx age, and their occupation or year of school. Would also help with my nieces and nephews, where I will see them a few times per year but still ask the same leading questions each time. Oh I'm starting