Apple is engaged on including cameras to the Apple Watch in an effort to allow AI options like Visual Intelligence throughout the subsequent two years, in response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in right this moment’s Power On Newsletter.
The cameras will probably be “contained in the show” for the usual Series Watch, whereas the Apple Watch Ultra would characteristic it on the facet, subsequent to the digital crown and button, in response to Gurman. With them, the Apple Watch would be capable to “see the skin world and use AI to ship related info,” which he says can be the plan for camera-equipped AirPods Apple is rumored to be engaged on.
The Visual Intelligence options that these units would use debuted on the iPhone 16, the place it really works with the cellphone’s digital camera to do issues like add particulars from an occasion flyer to your calendar, or lookup details about a restaurant. It’s underpinned by AI fashions from different firms, however Gurman writes that Apple hopes to energy the characteristic with its personal in-house fashions by 2027, when he says the corporate plans to launch these new Apple Watches and AirPods.
Visual Intelligence and different AI options coming to Apple’s wearables would rely rather a lot the management of Mike Rockwell, who Gurman reported final week is now in cost getting the delayed Siri LLM improve on observe. Rockwell was beforehand accountable for the Vision Pro and reportedly will proceed to work on visionOS. That software program is predicted to energy one other Apple wearable that’s more likely to have an enormous AI element, however that’s possible nonetheless a number of years away: AR glasses within the vein of the Orion idea that Meta confirmed off final 12 months.
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