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AI is Driving a Smart Glasses Boom. Will It Last?
- Companies like Meta, Amazon, Snap, Samsung and Google are betting on AI-powered smart glasses to be the next popular connected wearable.
- About a dozen smaller companies are aslo making AI-powered smart glasses, using the AI of popular large language models like ChatGPT.
- AI-powered smart glasses offer hands-free connectivity to users, who can use the embedded AI assistant to do online searches, take photos or videos, read and write text messages and translate foreign languages in real time.
- Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm’s general manager of extended reality (XR) said, “the real value comes in the integration of generative AI and a digital assistant that understands your preferences and needs”.
- AI-powered smart glasses are more intuitive and practical for everyday use and act as a personal assistant that anticipates user needs, streamlines daily tasks and performs activities like ordering food, hailing a ride and others.
- Even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose Ray-Ban smart glasses are said to be the best-selling in the market, wasn’t so sure.
- This year will determine if AI glasses will eventually become the next computing platform or if this is just going to be a longer grind as per Zuckerberg.
- Jiang said smart glasses probably won’t replace smartphones anytime soon but rather will complement them and lead to reduced screen time.
- Mithilesh Ramaswamy, a senior engineer at Microsoft who specializes in AI and security, thinks smart glasses still have a way to go before becoming truly mainstream.
- Zuckerberg chose to be optimistic about the future of AI smart glasses: “there are a lot of people in the world who have glasses. It’s kind of hard for me to imagine that a decade or more from now all the glasses aren’t going to basically be AI glasses”.
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