Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods are approaching early mass production testing, with low-resolution visual sensors designed to feed environmental context to Siri rather than capture photos or video.
AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple's rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are "actively using" prototypes that are in the design validation test stage, which is one step before the production validation test stage. The AirPods' cameras "aren't designed" to snap photos or video but instead can take in "visual information in low resolution" that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman.
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