The Future. Big Tech sees wearable, AI-powered tech as a way to drive constant engagement… and now, every company is trying to win the race to create the go-to device. Whichever firm comes out on top could have the iPhone of the AI era — a ubiquitous device that becomes synonymous with the market itself.
Face screensEvery firm in Silicon Valley is working on a wearable that uses multimodal AI — systems that “understand drawings, charts, objects, and hand gestures in addition to text and audio,” per The Information.
OpenAI has reportedly struck a deal with Snap to bring an object-recognition system to products, while CEO Sam Altman is developing a device with Jony Ive.
Microsoft is introducing an OpenAI-powered chatbot to its HoloLens AR goggles and has filed patents that imagine multimodal AI in small, lightweight devices.
Google has focused its AI capabilities on the Pixel phone but is also developing software that can be licensed to hardware manufacturers.
Meta is already testing AI capabilities in its smart glasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban.
Apple will have strong computer vision software in its upcoming Vision Pro and was recently developing a lightweight pair of AI-powered smart glasses (that’s been paused).
Amazon has been working under the radar on several devices, including a pair of smart glasses called “Echo Frames” that uses AI.
But there’s one company that doesn’t believe people want AI on their face: Humane, which thinks having a device pinned to your clothes that can project images onto your hands is a more natural way to use the tech.
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