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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Apple's AI Wearables Expected to Lean Heavily on Visual Intelligence
Apple's Visual Intelligence is expected to feature heavily in the company's upcoming set of AI wearable devices, which could include smart glasses, a pendant, and more advanced AirPods, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that hints dropped by CEO Tim Cook in recent months suggested the Apple Intelligence feature would be central to the devices, with Cook's comments following a pattern sim…
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