Apple is accelerating its plans to compete against Meta’s popular Ray-Ban Smart Glasses. Bloomberg. Reports indicate that Apple will release smart glasses at the end of the year. The company has also dropped its plans to launch an Apple Watch with built-in cameras.
Apple’s AI-powered smart glasses are coming next year.
According to the report, Apple will “start manufacturing large quantities of prototypes by the end of this calendar year.” The glasses have cameras, microphones and speakers built in so that they can “analyze and take requests using the Siri voice assistant.” They will also be able to make phone calls, play music, provide turn-by-turn navigation and offer live translation. The report states that “a person with knowledge about the glasses said that they will be similar but better made to the Meta product.” Apple’s Vision Products Group is leading the project, as it did with Vision Pro. Apple employees are concerned about the impact of the company’s AI struggles on the smart glasses.
Apple’s AI struggles could be a hindrance to the smart glasses.
Apple’s smart glass workers remain concerned that AI failures will undermine the new product. Meta Ray-Bans, as well as upcoming glasses that run the Android operating system, benefit from the strength and power of Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama artificial intelligence platforms. Apple uses OpenAI and Google Lens to analyze the real world through the iPhone’s Visual Intelligence.
The company will probably want to roll out their own technology with the upcoming hardware.
Bloomberg had previously reported that Apple was developing future Apple Watch models that have built-in cameras. This project has been reportedly shelved since this week. AirPods with cameras are still in development.
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9to5Mac Take
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