Apple is engaged on including cameras to the Apple Watch so as to allow AI options like Visual Intelligence throughout the subsequent two years, in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in at this time’s Power On Newsletter.
The cameras shall be “contained in the show” for the usual Series Watch, whereas the Apple Watch Ultra would function it on the facet, subsequent to the digital crown and button, in keeping with Gurman. With them, the Apple Watch would be capable of “see the surface world and use AI to ship related data,” which he says can also 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 telephone’s digital camera to do issues like add particulars from an occasion flyer to your calendar, or search for details about a restaurant. It’s underpinned by AI fashions from different firms, however Gurman writes that Apple hopes to energy the function 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 lots the management of Mike Rockwell, who Gurman reported final week is now in cost getting the delayed Siri LLM improve on monitor. Rockwell was beforehand in command of the Vision Pro and reportedly will proceed to work on visionOS. That software program is anticipated to energy one other Apple wearable that’s prone to have a giant 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.
