Among the Mega Trends connected to Artificial Intelligence is the evolution of Hardware. In particular, Big Tech investments are focusing on new devices intended to replace existing ones, particularly the smartphone. Among the leading candidates are AI glasses, glasses integrated with artificial intelligence functions. An initial search involving mainly Meta – Marck Zuckerberg’s group whose new name derives from the idea of Metaverse – and Apple, has been devoted to Virtual Reality viewers; however, both companies have so far been unable to launch mass-market products. Through an agreement with the EssilorLuxottica Group, Meta has released a new generation of glasses with AI capabilities, which are beginning to show significant potential. The eyewear can target and dethrone the smartphone as a mass-market personal device because it approaches the main sense organs, the eyes and ears, and can therefore also interact effectively with speech and the vestibular apparatus. In essence, an AI glass is the closest device to the central nervous system, and can communicate with the human brain more directly and effectively than devices such as the smartphone.
Among the most interesting features implemented thanks to Artificial Intelligence in AI glasses are visual image recognition, which enables the worn device to identify and describe objects in the visual spectrum, voice command that is received by the glasses and can activate features, transmission via speech synthesis of information to the user by hearing, automatic translation of foreign language texts, as well as, of course, video and audio recording functions and the ability to take photos. Integration with other sensors, such as GPS or gyroscope, enables the ability to detect the user’s position and direction and give him directions.
A further step involves the introduction of augmented reality elements, which can, for example, show directions to routes, meaningful data, technical information about objects or potentially people. Privacy issues are delaying the deployment of these technologies in Europe because of violations of some AI ACT principles, such as privacy rules.
AI Glasses can have both wide mass deployment and specific, professional uses, such as in the military, medical, or industrial sectors.
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