Do you hear that? It’s the sound of augmented reality (AR) fading away as a driving concept in technology. Apple has instructed developers to refer to their apps as spatial computing apps instead of AR, VR, XR, or MR. However, the blame should be on artificial intelligence (AI) and the genAI trend, which has redirected the purpose of AR glasses.
Tech giants have been working on “smart glasses” for over a decade, and they are finally hitting the market. The killer app for these glasses is AI. Oppo introduced its Oppo Air Glass 3 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, using its own genAI tech called AndesGPT. Google is also planning to enter the AI glasses market, focusing on smart glasses that look like ordinary glasses. Microsoft is filing patents for “smart glasses,” likely focusing on access to ChatGPT. Amazon shipped its Echo Frames back in September 2019, but now Ray-Ban Meta glasses are dominating the market.
2024-03-13 15:00:03
Article from www.computerworld.com