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Would you wear AI smart glasses_ Big tech is betting on it · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Meta, what's this?
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  Speaker 2: This piece is called Comedian by Mauricio Kani. Smart glasses
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  Speaker 2: are back on people's faces. Tech giants like Meta are
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  Speaker 2: betting they're the next big thing in AI.
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  Speaker 1: I think that personal devices like glasses that can see
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  Speaker 1: what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with
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  Speaker 1: us throughout the day are going to become our main
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  Speaker 1: computing devices.
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  Speaker 2: On their recent earnings call, Meta touted the success of
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  Speaker 2: their ray band smart glasses, tying them to their future
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  Speaker 2: AI hopes, and they have newer models in the works.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not the only ones getting into the glasses game.
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  Speaker 3: Hey everyone, right now you should be seeing exactly what
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing through.
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  Speaker 1: The lens of my Android xrglasses.
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  Speaker 2: Google recently demoed glasses with Gemini AI. Apple is rumored
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  Speaker 2: to be releasing AI enabled glasses down the road. Chinese
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  Speaker 2: companies show Me just released its first AI glasses available
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  Speaker 2: for now on mainland China.
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  Speaker 1: We've spent eleven years and invested more more than three
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars in building augmented reality glasses.
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  Speaker 2: And snap the company behind Snapchat, announced specs AI and
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  Speaker 2: augmented reality glasses that'll arrive next year. So why AI
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  Speaker 2: glasses Because there's intense competition for AI supremacy now and
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  Speaker 2: as people get used to using Chatchipt, Gemini and other
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  Speaker 2: AI tools, the pitches many of us will want an
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  Speaker 2: AI assistant embedded in our glasses.
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  Speaker 4: The progress in AI is opening up new use cases
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  Speaker 4: for these glasses, and so it makes it more interesting
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  Speaker 4: to have one more device.
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  Speaker 2: So a future of AI with us throughout the day
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  Speaker 2: on our wearable devices. But how about right now?
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  Speaker 4: Would you buy them?
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  Speaker 2: Meta's glasses are already available, so I met with optician
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  Speaker 2: and store owner Dennis lima Ken to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: market for these things. So why are people buying this?
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's intriguing to most people is that you're able
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  Speaker 5: to like chord video and still experience what you're looking
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  Speaker 5: at instead of looking at something through your phone.
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  Speaker 2: Users typically use smart glasses to listen to music without earbuds,
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  Speaker 2: access the AI function, or take videos hands free. Do
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  Speaker 2: people ever feel uncomfortable with like, hey are you videoing me?
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  Speaker 2: Or is there a very lowwardness in that way?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so, you know, maybe if you're doing
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  Speaker 5: something weird, but other than that, you know, not really
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  Speaker 5: nobody's really said anything sometimes I feel like people don't
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  Speaker 5: even notice it too, because it just looks like pair
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  Speaker 5: of glasses.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, your latest smartphone can do a lot of
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  Speaker 2: what these glasses can do. It's mostly a matter of convenience,
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  Speaker 2: but it does point towards a future of wearable AI
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  Speaker 2: tech like these glasses that's more integrated into our daily lives.
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  Speaker 4: If you have agents that have access to your visual world,
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  Speaker 4: not just your digital world, you're opening up new ability
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  Speaker 4: for the agents to be proactive about finding ways to
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  Speaker 4: help you. So it's going to be able to build
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  Speaker 4: an understanding of your life, and that is much richer
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  Speaker 4: by being part of your physical life, not just your
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  Speaker 4: digital life.
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  Speaker 2: But of course, the more integrated it may be in future,
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  Speaker 2: the more data about you need to access, for example,
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  Speaker 2: your calendar, your contacts.
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  Speaker 4: Ideally, we provide a lot of control for the users
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  Speaker 4: to be able to make those choices. The tricky part is,
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  Speaker 4: right now, the interface to a lot of these controls
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  Speaker 4: is pretty complicated. So if we think about social media platforms,
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  Speaker 4: there are lots of ways to customize our experience, and
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  Speaker 4: yet very few people take the time to go in
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  Speaker 4: their settings.
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  Speaker 2: When I took the glasses out for a spin. I
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  Speaker 2: could see some convenient use cases, but some situations needed
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  Speaker 2: to work around. Hey Meta, what's the best way to
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  Speaker 2: get to Roy Thompson Hall.
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  Speaker 1: The Roy Thompson Hall is around one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: meters away. That's about a two minute walk.
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  Speaker 2: It can tell me how far away it is and
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  Speaker 2: how long it'll take to get there, but it can
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  Speaker 2: help with directions. Turn by turn navigation requires using a
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  Speaker 2: mapping application and playing the directions through the glasses speakers,
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  Speaker 2: or if you're partially cited. You can see this piece
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  Speaker 2: of equipment here, but you can't read the plaque about it.
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  Speaker 2: You can get Meta to do that for you. Hey Meta,
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  Speaker 2: read this sign.
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  Speaker 1: Aloud steambeck st nineteen hundred c. Nineteen seventy five, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: mm flatbed film viewer.
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  Speaker 2: But of course, you're relying on today's AI models to
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  Speaker 2: be consistently accurate, which they currently aren't. Major tech companies
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  Speaker 2: have worked on virtual reality headsets, augmented reality, and glasses
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  Speaker 2: for years, so this isn't coming out of nowhere. But
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  Speaker 2: we're also in the midst of a lot of overinflated
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  Speaker 2: language about AI from tech companies. Sam Altman recently bragged
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  Speaker 2: that OpenAI's latest GPT model would have PhD level expert abilities.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg tied the use of meta glasses to a
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  Speaker 2: future of personal superintelligence. So how much of this is hype?
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  Speaker 3: When you look at Meta The two things that they're
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  Speaker 3: doing is they have all of our personalized data, right,
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  Speaker 3: they have our network graft through Facebook and Instagram, and
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  Speaker 3: they've been spending I think it's over sixty billion dollars
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  Speaker 3: that they've spent trying to make the metaverse and heads
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  Speaker 3: up displays work. So they've they've got those goggles or
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  Speaker 3: the glasses, and they're hoping that they can use them
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  Speaker 3: for something. So it doesn't answer the question of do
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  Speaker 3: you actually have a vision here?
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  Speaker 2: So glasses aren't the only innovation being hyped. Observers like
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  Speaker 2: karf tech companies are burning through cash to convince investors
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  Speaker 2: AI will make money in the future.
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  Speaker 3: All of these products are money furnaces that because they
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  Speaker 3: look like the future and feel like the future, the
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  Speaker 3: companies that are spending the most money on the money
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  Speaker 3: furnace are able to raise more money to put into
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  Speaker 3: the furnace, tap the touch pad.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond the hype, questions remain about whether consumers will bite.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the flop that was Google. Glass headbounded displays, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: are used in specific applications like gaming, but haven't found
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  Speaker 2: broad acceptance. And then there are the ethical and privacy questions.
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  Speaker 2: People already take sneaky photos with their phones. What about
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  Speaker 2: when it's a pair of glasses with just a tiny
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  Speaker 2: light to show the cameras working and they'll let you
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  Speaker 2: live stream, the FBI said. The suspect in the New
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  Speaker 2: Year's Day truck attack on New Orleans wore Meta glasses
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  Speaker 2: to survey the scene beforehand, and during the recent trial
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  Speaker 2: of hockey players in London, the judge temporarily bar de
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  Speaker 2: man from attending because he was wearing smart glasses in
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  Speaker 2: the courtroom. We're taking footages and permitted.
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  Speaker 4: We're starting to see the first cases of people, you know,
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  Speaker 4: taking the glass, of students taking the glasses into an
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  Speaker 4: exam room and cheating during their exam with that when
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  Speaker 4: you know people are not necessarily aware of those possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the personal data piece. Meta recently changed
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  Speaker 2: their glasses policy. Now what you say when you're interacting
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  Speaker 2: with Meta AI can be stored and used to help
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  Speaker 2: improve their AI systems.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, there's a difficult transition period because people don't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily understand the capabilities. We're going to need to evolve
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  Speaker 4: new social norms around this technology.
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  Speaker 2: If all these glasses take off, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: convenient but complicated MHM.