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The Latest Apple Smart Glasses Rumor Sounds Like a Long Shot

Gizmodo·James Pero·about 1 month ago
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Apple’s first-ever pair of smart glasses is most likely coming at some point this year, but what they’ll actually look like is still a pretty open question. Cameras? Most likely. Open-ear audio ? That’s a no-brainer. AI? It’s 2026 after all. If there’s one thing that I’m pretty certain they won’t have, it’s support for first-of-a-kind camera-based hand gestures, though a new and somewhat dubious rumor would suggest otherwise. According to MacRumors , an “inside source” is suggesting that Apple will use one of the two on-device cameras for a kind of hand-tracking that can read gestures and then translate them into inputs on the smart glasses. While the idea of hand-tracking already exists on devices like the Meta Quest 3 and Vision Pro , putting that technology in a form factor as small as smart glasses would  be novel. Because of that boundary-pushing nature, the rumor is attracting skeptics like Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman , who has already published his own reports on what to expect from Apple’s glasses.…

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