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Rather than functioning as conventional cameras, the sensors are expected to feed information into Visual Intelligence. This would allow Siri to answer questions about what is around the wearer or save information they encounter throughout the day.

This is not the first report suggesting Apple is developing AirPods with cameras. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman previously claimed the earbuds would collect “visual information in low resolution,” effectively acting as eyes for Apple’s AI features.

Potential uses could include asking Siri questions about nearby objects, saving information without taking out your iPhone, or receiving more detailed turn-by-turn directions based on the wearer’s surroundings.

The AirPods shown in the video resemble a slightly thicker version of the AirPods Pro 3, with longer stems seemingly providing room for the additional hardware.

Apple has not officially announced the device, so its final name, price, features, and launch date remain unknown. However, previous reports suggest the AirPods could arrive as early as September alongside Apple’s next generation of iPhones.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You were SO close.

StarePods

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where the hell do they find their focus groups that encourage this crap?

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're building the surveillance state.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They literally want to have surveillance cameras sticking out of our fucking ears and have us pay for it. And no doubt a bunch of idiots cannot wait to comply.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

A very large bunch, long identified as sheeple

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago

So pervert air pods

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago

Enters a Mexican restaurant. ICE arrives minutes after.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m already kicking myself for buying into them in the first place. Fuck cameras, I’m going back to wired headphones. My $20 IEMs sound better than my AirPod pros, without all the fancy over processing.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I got myself a pair of moondrop chu’s and this is the way

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Why the fuck

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

At this point, it seems like the only way out of this situation is the weaponization of EMPs. I’m not supporting that, I’d personally prefer if medical technology and refrigerators and similar things still worked, but if people don’t like cameras everywhere (and we can now very clearly see that they don’t) and companies insist on putting cameras into all types of technologies where they’re not always visible, where else could this lead?

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a camera to me.

[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

"Hey siri what is on my foot" "hey siri" "hey siri" "hey siri what is on my foot"

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s a quick way to get a cauliflower ear.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

punch the face

punch the ears

you wear this shit, no your not ..

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like they come with Visual Idiocy.

You can tell by seeing someone with them that they're a fucking idiot.

[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

any marketing garbage is a leak these days...

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

marketing = lies

companies do nothing but rape, murder, commit fraud and theft.

none of them deserve money or oxygen at this point

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

finally, i can livestream my ear canal 24/7

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Honestly, if the data stays on device and it’s not recording then idgaf. Local stuff has never really bothered me.

[–] 3bygone3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Even local only (which you know won't be the case here) is an issue. It still allows one to record stuff that one shouldn't.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It won't. Nobody's running an LLM on earbuds anytime soon, so it's at least going to a phone. From þe phone, it's almost certainly going to þe cloud since Siri AI makes cloud requests to Apple's infrastructure for exactly þe kind of prompts TA suggests:

It takes full advantage of the bold new architecture for Apple Intelligence, including the next generation of Apple Foundation Models that run on device and on servers using Private Cloud Compute.

Þey put "private" in þe name so you know you can trust it 🙄

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