I have been wearing meta -ray smart glasses over the past one year. I use them to easily record POV Video of my experiences Nintendo Switch 2 and everywhere, such as tech, in the theme parks like Epic Universe. They are very good, but the battery runs fast, and the cameras can be better.
It is changing soon. Qualcomm has just announced its latest chip for smart glasses, which will be included in the product starting next year. It promises high power performance, improved cameras and even AI that will operate offline on glasses without cloud connection.
The new AR1 Plus General 1 chip is upgraded with chips on small smart glasses like Meta Rayan. Its purpose is not for high -end AR glasses that offer 3D images, but it may appear very well on the varieties of display glasses that Google recently shown in its developer conference and the next generation of meta ray beans.
I talked about the news about this news, and what would it mean for glasses that you could buy soon.
A small chip allows a large battery
These days, I have wore Meta -Ray Baions that already look like real glasses, a little bit of chin. Asghar emphasized that the new chip is 20 % smaller. For example, it is about to help future smart glasses look like glasses regularly.
“If I have to fit it in the glass side,” Asghar told me about the chip, “I need to really reduce this dimension.”
A small chip also leaves more rooms to pack a battery capacity. Despite its small size, the new chip power efficiency will actually improve 5 %. It is not much like it, but the Asghar also sees the future change in glass processing on the phone that will also help battery life. At present, devices like Meta Rayan use cloud processing for AI.
The new chip of Qualcomm can reduce the next wave of glasses.
Room for more AI, even offline
“Now what is really different is AI,” says Asghar about the current state of smart glasses. “I keep saying this, but I really believe that it will help us use XR cases more than anywhere else.”
What one of the new tricks can do a new quote of Qualcomm is to run a small language model, which allows them to do more offline things with sound orders. At the World Expo Conference in Long Beach, California, Qualcomm showed some of them, I am attending, so I will share ideas about how it works soon.
Meta -ray can use voice commands for photos and offline, but for future glasses, sound tricks can be even more expansion. Think of fitness, music playback and more.
“This device also has a role as a standstone device,” says Asghar. It is not always connected or teacher or connected to the cloud. And I think it will open a lot of scenarios. “
Low light, better camera for motion
Meta -ray Bans takes better photos and videos than you expect, but the video standard is widely angle and sometimes it is sometimes low. Asghar says new chips will improve cameras and image stability.
“We say that you are sitting in a restaurant at night, in dim light, and in front of me there is a menu that I want to translate. That’s what we are working, how to improve the ability of less light.” Asghar also says that the stability of the camera for videos and photos will improve.
I ask about whether the zoom features can come into glasses like these, which will potentially require a glass display, with the help of chips. Signs refer to the digital crop as an option, and even in the future, eye tracking zoom controls.
The Samsung Galaxy color does not work with glasses yet, but Qualcomm circles and glass demo shows that it will eventually be.
Better play with the rings worth wearing outer pits
Smart glasses are moving towards a deep relationship with our phones and other wearers, and Qualcomm is already a player in all these places: it is also one of the key partners Google’s Android XR. The watches see as a part of the halla wearing gear, which will soon work with glasses, but today he sees more capabilities in small clothing like colors.
He says, “You can mainly use the ring, and you can use it very cautiously.” “Your hand can be down, and no one knows,” Asghar says, in surprise, the demo of Qualcomm showed Bluetooth smart color for the indicator control, and indicated decisions that can soon come from other partners.
Incoming glasses can use their processing pits. Zriel is adopting a puck for his first experimental Android XR device, Project AuraAnd has already been demo for his imagination of Meta Orion glasses. Part of this picker appeal is that it can allow glasses to easily operate in the limits of the phone and their OS (mainly, Android and iOS).
“The biggest thing about glasses is that it gives our cloud players a way to reach their AI and LLMS and agents to consumers,” says Asghar. “Not every cloud player has smartphone assets.”
Pixes may be a sign that Android XR has now been announced as the future bridge of AR and VR devices, Google will still need some time to know how the glass link from the phone actually works. Meanwhile, Apple has not enabled any integrated smart glasses to help iOS, at least beyond individual apps such as Meta, which are far from accessing Siri and deep phones.
Battery life is a problem
I can’t go through the use of ray bins for more than half a day before I need a recharge. Asghar acknowledged that there is a problem with battery life at the moment, but he says some solutions can be popups. This new chip may not promote battery life so much, but more phone processing or connected pits can help.
“Today, the battery is mostly on one side. And we know that people are basically looking to double the battery, which has a dual -cell battery on both glass legs to increase the capacity.” “Or maybe they may come up with an interesting design that allows for a battery.”
What about things that are not even glasses?
AI leader Openi purchased Jonny Evo’s hardware company, working on a rough AI device that could be based on a pendant instead of sitting on your face, or sitting on a desk. It is fully possible to wear more camera -based AI Human Ai Pin Also coming. Asghar acknowledged that Qualcomm’s processor could be eliminated in other equipment other than glass.
“It’s a great part, okay?” He told me. “People are really experiencing with form factors. You do not get this opportunity often. The smartphone is very fixed. This (XR) is not fixed. The AI ​​agent’s device can be smart glasses. It can be something on your body too.”
But it is known that whatever comes, it has to increase better than the failures of the past AI device. “There has been a very important failure. People have high expectations from such products. They need to run, and they need to run very well.” And hopefully the charge will continue for more than a few hours.