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Apple Is Planning Smart Glasses With and Without AR (theverge.com) 42

Posted by BeauHD from the what-to-expect dept.
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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  • Earbud cameras? Do we need to capture side views as we walk around? Perhaps warn you that traffic to your right or left is not clear before you step into street? A digital guide dog while your eyes are busy consuming content on your smartphone as you walk around?

    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?

  • "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."

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      Hey Siri Specs, use AI to remove all clothing from the people in front of me

      When Chris Christie or Ginni Thomas walks in front of you, you'll beeline to the Apple Store screaming for a refund.

    • 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.

      • $200 Android knock-offs that I can hack to disable tracking/spying?? Hell yeah, Take my money!

        • Quite the opposite, the $200 Android version will automatically opt you into sharing all of your location data to advertisers for targeted advertising. I'd imagine that it will also share your pictures for "quality assurance" reasons as well, which will probably get fed in to the AI modeling company who offers the highest winning bid.

          And it will all be completely legal, thanks to some well placed campaign donations to the right congressional members.

  • 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.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      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

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        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.

        • 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.

          I watched Married with Children as it was coming out. It was the era where home PCs were just starting to climb out of the "dorky hobby" realm and into the "dad uses it to do work, mom uses it to file recipes" realm. The internet certainly wasn't a big thing during the Bundy's main run, which was really the only time they addressed computers at all.

          Do you have your NO MA'AM shirt?

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by hey! ( 33014 )

      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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jezwel ( 2451108 )

      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

      • Law enforcement might be able to subpoena recorded video for any AI glasses that are near an unlawful event to help identify perps

        Or to find people accused of wrongthink for the concentration camps.

        I say smash the glassholes regardless of brand.

      • I remember back in the old days, we had to remember names, phone numbers, addresses, directions.... How fucking stupid/lazy is this generation? Fuck me.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by jezwel ( 2451108 )
          I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff when I go somewhere new - I'm at the other end of the bellcurve of age.

          Mind you, I'm also getting close to just not giving a shit about it all anymore, so I guess I have that going for me, which is nice.

      • Steve Mann [wikipedia.org] has been experimenting with wearable computers, including exactly the types of applications you describe (augmented memory), since the 1980s. The Wikipedia article is not really very good. This article [ieee.org] by Mann gives a better overview of some of the things he's done.

        I have to note in particular "scratch input [wikipedia.org]". What's a sound many people consider among the most irritating? Fingernails on a chalkboard? (If you can find a chalkboard.) Great! Let's use that sound as a computer interface! "The awful

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Jeremi ( 14640 )

      Why would I want smart glasses?

      I don't know that you would, but some people might like to have a "heads-up-display" so that they don't have to take their phone out of their pocket every time they receive a notification; they could just glance at the text message in the corner of their vision and decide right away whether it's something worth dealing with immediately, or not. YMMV.

    • The value is not to you. The value is to the companies providing the tech. They'll be able to aggregate far more data about you if you are constantly wearing the tech, to the point you sometimes forget to take it off for private moments because it become such a part of your everyday all the time existence. It's the dream of the tech-oligarchy, to have infinite data about each and every person, and be able to categorize, filter, and propagate that data in such a way as to perfectly curtail ads and services t

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  • A lot of assholes wearing spy glasses are going to get punched in the face.

  • I seem to remember some other company made some kind of smart glasses with cameras ... wasn't a great mass-market commercial success ... raised privacy concerns ... [something] Glass. Not Philip Glass. Giggle Glass? Am I wrong? How is this better?

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