The business announced by Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google past twelvemonth is processing a brace of mixed reality smart glasses that nexus to nan wearer’s smartphone, according to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. “It’s going to beryllium a caller product,” Amon told CNBC successful a caller interview.
“What I really expect to travel retired of this partnership, I want everyone that has a telephone to spell bargain companion glasses to spell on pinch it,” said Amon. “I deliberation we request to get to nan constituent that nan glasses are going to beryllium nary different than wearing regular glasses aliases sunglasses. And past pinch that, we tin get scale.”
Information astir nan task has been highly slim since nan XR business was announced back successful February 2023. While nan companies ne'er specified what type of instrumentality they were moving on, astir rumors suggested it would beryllium a Samsung mixed reality headset sounded arsenic an affordable competitor to Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro. Google has besides teased a pair of prototype AR glasses moving its upcoming Project Astra multimodal AI adjunct astatine nan Google I/O arena successful May.
Amon tells CNBC he’s “incredibly pleased” pinch nan Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses released past year, which are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip, and said that generative AI was nan “ingredient that was missing” for description successful nan mixed reality market. “AI is going to tally connected nan device. It’s going to tally connected nan cloud,” said Amon. “It’s going to tally immoderate successful nan glass, immoderate successful nan phone, but astatine nan extremity of nan day, there’s going to beryllium full caller experiences.”