I’ve been a smart glasses guy for the better part of 5 years — watching them grow through their awkward design phase, as the parallel lines of AR and AI specs start to merge. It’s been a wild ride through the likes of Nreal (now Xreal), Ray-Ban Metas and more. But now, just as smart glasses were really starting to hit their stylish stride (Even Realities G2 for example), the new Snapdragon Wear Elite chipset may have just moved the idea of what the best AI wearable is from our eyes to our ears. We’ve been hearing rumors of a pair of AirPods equipped with cameras. I’ve been blown away by Razer’s Project Motoko headset that crams multi-modal AI tech of smart glasses into a pair of cans, and Qualcomm VP Ziad Asghar told me he’s rather excited about this new form factor that the new AI-armed silicon unlocks.
