GoKawiilAs soon as next year, Apple will be debuting its first pair of AI-powered smart glasses. They’ll integrate Visual Intelligence and bring Siri to the real world. Here’s what we’re expecting.
Core features
First and foremost, these glasses are AI glasses, not AR glasses. That means they’ll primarily be voice and camera-based, as they won’t have any displays.
The cameras will allow Siri to look at your real world environment and answer questions, provide context, and translate signage. Another feature that we’ll likely see on these glasses is the ability for you to ask Siri to save an image of something and remind you later, as we first saw in the macOS 26.7 leak.
They’ll also offer speakers for music and audio playback, so you can think of them as open-ear headphones.
On the other hand, though – they might not allow for the glasses to take photos and videos normally, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses have become a massive privacy concern lately, and Apple may want to avoid that.
Styles
Unlike Meta, Apple isn’t partnering with an existing eyewear-maker to design these glasses. According to Bloomberg, the company is instead designing them in house, with a number of different styles in the works:
A large rectangular frame, reminiscent of Ray-Ban Wayfarers
A slimmer rectangular design, similar to the glasses worn by Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook
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