They haven’t even thought of adding fans for the hot days. Is anyone even thinking of users at Apple?
Ear pics now easier than ever
Let’s take low power a tech gadget that gets good battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.
Just to improve the spy ecosystem. Thanks
100% says it’s for gesture tracking and fully local
The source code is closed so you cannot check Apple allegations only trust them and I don’t trust a company who puts a advertising ID on its phones
Do you trust Google? They do a LOT more than add a highly anonymous advertising ID you can reset at at will.
Marketing departments around the world collectively shat their pants when Apple did that change, it made tons of user tracking instantly completely useless.
Yeah well, they wouldn’t buy earphones with fucking cameras on them from Google either, now would they?
Only because everyone’s on edge, give it a few years and they’ll need “anonymised” data collection to “help improve their service”
Have they done it with FaceID yet?
It can detect accurate facial expressions, it’d be advertising gold to see what faces people pull when watching ads, even see if they’re looking at the phone
Only because everyone’s on edge,
Wrong, everyone’s on chrome
I’ll see myself out, no need to shoot
Edge is what you use to download a browser.
And this is why the Humane Pin was always a dumb idea. Apple, Google, Samsung, etc just needed to license some LL and diffusion models, then slap camera on all the headphones they make. Boom - instant humane like experience that’s faster, lighter, better looking, has better battery, etc etc.
No futuristic projector UI, but that thing was pretty busted anyway.
The big problem with the humane pin was that it was trying to do processing on the teeny tiny device and that used all it’s battery up in 15 mins generated 300 MW of heat.
Why not just use the phone in your pocket that’s actually designed for this kind of data processing?
As I recall, the original goal was to build a product that allowed you to leave the phone behind so you could be more present in the world.
Problem is, processing and battery power clearly isn’t there yet, and it would require a separate sim for that.
A product that leveraged the phone would’ve been a better V1. It’s kind of the obvious conclusion everyone comes to when they play with this thing in the wild.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but anyone feel like Apple is slowly having an…over-engineering problem?
The Apple Vision Pro, this… the new iPad Pros with FUCKING M4 CHIPS THAT ARE RUNNING IPADOS (???)
Like what is happening in their product development department lately?
They need to take their talent and apply it to stuff that could actually use it, rather than rehashing stuff that is already good. An Apple clothes dryer that actually can sense dry clothes and doesn’t break easily. An apple garage door that doesn’t suck. An Apple Ebike that lasts ages and is repairable (and gets people out of their cars).
I think an Apple bidet could be neat. A toaster, too.
I bought a fancy shmancy toaster and it sucks, matches my mixer but ruins my sammiches.
… I don’t know if I trust Siri to wash my asshole tbh
Something tells me you wouldn’t like the coming AssID feature either.
An Apple bidet which adds a colonic health section to your Health app
Did you just put “repairable” and “Apple” in the same sentence?
The bidet is under development. It is going to have cameras to confirm cleanliness using ai.
“If you can’t reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive.” -Tim Apple, probably
Or they have a ton of M4 sized wheels and it’s easier just to use the same wheel for everything
Listen, I can’t lie…my iPhone X is the best phone I’ve owned. Bought in 2017 and still going strong with promised support until 2026/27. I still have fond memories of “paying” my parents back for it (I was child labour 😀)
I bought a 14 pro and gave my nephew my X. Besides the island and the camera quality they are largely indistinguishable for almost all of my use-cases. And they are almost 5 years apart.
Cost as much as an iPhone
I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it. I’m sure it’s going to be taking data for mapping or some other dumb bullshit with AI to describe what’s around you because you can’t fucking use your eyes.
Apple is so bad now. Ugh.
Abandoned it? What?
Will the camera look inside of your ear?
Its gonna look out at the world so you can ask it questions and it can tell you about what youre looking at
Yes and tell you your IQ, and notify your doctor that you don’t wash in there.
The worst part is that these could be the only option. Since airpods are designed to go bad after a few years Apple will interpret all of the replacements as “very successful sales”
How about just better sound instead? You know, what headphones are actually for.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The $3 trillion company intends to mass-produce revamped earbuds with built-in infrared cameras by 2026, according to a new report from analyst and longtime Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo.
The cameras could help Apple shore up its current and future augmented-reality headsets with enhanced spatial audio features, the analyst wrote.
Citing a supply-chain survey, Kuo indicated that pairing these enhanced buds with Vision Pro goggles could make Apple’s spatial-computing experience more lifelike.
For folks not interested in dropping thousands on an Apple headset, the IR cameras could offer other perks, including bringing “in-air” gestures to AirPods, per Kuo.
The analyst’s report follows an earlier story from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which noted that Apple was looking into the idea of camera-powered AirPods.
After turning its minimalistic white buds into status symbol in the iPod era, Apple has gradually made them smarter over the years, adding features such as wireless connectivity, noise cancellation, head tracking, touch controls and voice commands.
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