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Apple's AI Wearables Expected to Lean Heavily on Visual Intelligence

Apple plans AI wearables including smart glasses, AirPods with cameras, and an AI pendant, all integrating advanced Visual Intelligence and new Siri features, sources say.

  • Apple is accelerating development of three AI-powered wearables, including smart glasses, a pendant, and AirPods with expanded AI capabilities, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
  • At a recent employee meeting this month, Tim Cook, Apple CEO, highlighted Visual Intelligence as the most important AI feature and hinted at a strong push into AI devices.
  • With iOS 26, Apple plans upgrades to Visual Intelligence to identify food ingredients, provide landmark-aware directions, and enable calendar, call, and translation features using the camera.
  • Smart glasses will be upscale with higher-end materials and multiple cameras; some cameras focus on photos and videos, others act as vision sensors, while AirPods with cameras use infrared sensors and an AI pendant/pin features two cameras and three microphones.
  • Apple expects to rely more on its own models than ChatGPT, using a revamped Siri and Google's Gemini, placing it alongside OpenAI and Meta Platforms; an Apple spokesperson declined to comment.
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According to Tim Cook, image recognition Visual Intelligence is one of the most popular features of Apple Intelligence. The company apparently wants to build on this. According to a media report, several products are specifically planned for this purpose. read more on t3n.de

Apple finally seems to take out its connected glasses from the drawer of "eternal projects".According to information from Bloomberg (Mark Gurman), the company has accelerated the development of three wearables IA — connected glasses, AirPods with cameras, and a pendant/pin — all thought like Siri extensions, capable of using the visual context to act. [...] Read more Apple's connected glasses: Why does Siri need two cameras? appeared first on Bl…

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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong on Sunday, February 22, 2026.
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