Will the camera look inside of your ear?
Apple Rumored to Be Working on AirPods With Built-in Cameras
Submitted 2 days ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/airpods-with-cameras-1851569242
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jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 days ago
ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 2 days ago
iWax
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
iWax on … iWax off
Zier@fedia.io 2 days ago
Yes and tell you your IQ, and notify your doctor that you don't wash in there.
xnx@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Its gonna look out at the world so you can ask it questions and it can tell you about what youre looking at
deltreed@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
How about just better sound instead? You know, what headphones are actually for.
SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Airpods are more about convenience than sound quality. Not sure how cameras factor in there though.
solrize@lemmy.world 2 days ago
First there were glassholes. Now we’ll have earworms?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You mean butt plugs with cameras pointing onwards into it?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I would buy that
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And this is why the Humane Pin was always a dumb idea. Apple, Google, Samsung, etc just needed to license some LL and diffusion models, then slap camera on all the headphones they make. Boom - instant humane like experience that’s faster, lighter, better looking, has better battery, etc etc.
No futuristic projector UI, but that thing was pretty busted anyway.
echodot@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
The big problem with the humane pin was that it was trying to do processing on the teeny tiny device and that used all this battery open generated 300 MW of heat.
Why not just use the phone in your pocket that’s actually designed for this kind of data processing?
simplejack@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
As I recall, the original goal was to build a product that allowed you to leave the phone behind so you could be more present in the world.
Problem is, processing and battery power clearly isn’t there yet, and it would require a separate sim for that.
A product that leveraged the phone would’ve been a better V1. It’s kind of the obvious conclusion everyone comes to when they play with this thing in the wild.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Just to improve the spy ecosystem. Thanks
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
100% says it’s for gesture tracking and fully local
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
The source code is closed so you cannot check Apple allegations only trust them and I don’t trust a company who puts a advertising ID on its phones
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Only because everyone’s on edge, give it a few years and they’ll need “anonymised” data collection to “help improve their service”
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I suppose they really wanna use all that R&D that they did on gesture tracking with the vision somewhere.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Let me guess. Add infrared cameras onto the Airpods, costing them very little extra, and using it as justification for an £80 price rise.
EasternLettuce@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I get the haha apple expensive meme, but the AirPods are very fairly priced in the market segment considering their feature set
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not saying otherwise. I’m saying IR cameras are probably an excuse to bump up the price.
jeffw@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think it’s more so a selling point to get you to buy into the Apple sphere. It would work with other Apple gear, so you just have to buy that other stuff
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 days ago
could offer “in-air” gestures
I can’t wait for stories of people brushing their hair away and the earbuds take that as a sign to raise the volume too high or something equally dumb to happen because they won’t be able to differentiate between a normal gesture meant for it and something not meant for it.
Gesture controls are cool, but what happens if they are too sensitive to movement or think gesture xyz is the same as gesture zyx?
exanime@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Exactly… I have regular buds for running and I hate them because they inevitably shift around a bit and , when I try to get them back in place, they start misinterpreting my touch with whatever touch command they were preprogrammed
These ideas sound nice in the brainstorming room but, in my experience, have rarely panned out in practice
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
These already have IR sensors for gesture detection
www.indiegogo.com/…/hy-concealed-smart-earbuds#/
Using cameras instead of simpler IR sensors are going to hurt battery life
555_1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think the problem would be there aren’t sensitive enough and you have people walking around talking to themselves and waving their hands all around in frustration
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If someone is wearing them you will never be truly certain if a bee is flying around them or not.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They haven’t even thought of adding fans for the hot days. Is anyone even thinking of users at Apple?
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Let’s take one of the only types of tech that gets reasonable battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Cost as much as an iPhone
bobc7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ear pics now easier than ever
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it. I’m sure it’s going to be taking data for mapping or some other dumb bullshit with AI to describe what’s around you because you can’t fucking use your eyes.
Apple is so bad now. Ugh.
tyler@programming.dev 2 days ago
Abandoned it? What?
thisisdee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re just stopping development of the Pro to focus on the cheaper model so not necessarily abandoned
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 days ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The $3 trillion company intends to mass-produce revamped earbuds with built-in infrared cameras by 2026, according to a new report from analyst and longtime Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo.
The cameras could help Apple shore up its current and future augmented-reality headsets with enhanced spatial audio features, the analyst wrote.
Citing a supply-chain survey, Kuo indicated that pairing these enhanced buds with Vision Pro goggles could make Apple’s spatial-computing experience more lifelike.
For folks not interested in dropping thousands on an Apple headset, the IR cameras could offer other perks, including bringing “in-air” gestures to AirPods, per Kuo.
The analyst’s report follows an earlier story from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which noted that Apple was looking into the idea of camera-powered AirPods.
After turning its minimalistic white buds into status symbol in the iPod era, Apple has gradually made them smarter over the years, adding features such as wireless connectivity, noise cancellation, head tracking, touch controls and voice commands.
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sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but anyone feel like Apple is slowly having an…over-engineering problem?
The Apple Vision Pro, this… the new iPad Pros with FUCKING M4 CHIPS THAT ARE RUNNING IPADOS (???)
Like what is happening in their product development department lately?
Chozo@fedia.io 2 days ago
"If you can't reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive."
-Tim Apple, probably
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I appreciate his proper name being used 🤗
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Listen, I can’t lie…my iPhone X is the best phone I’ve owned. Bought in 2017 and still going strong with promised support until 2026/27. I still have fond memories of “paying” my parents back for it (I was child labour 😀)
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Or they have a ton of M4 sized wheels and it’s easier just to use the same wheel for everything
Wahots@pawb.social 2 days ago
They need to take their talent and apply it to stuff that could actually use it, rather than rehashing stuff that is already good. An Apple clothes dryer that actually can sense dry clothes and doesn’t break easily. An apple garage door that doesn’t suck. An Apple Ebike that lasts ages and is repairable (and gets people out of their cars).
I think an Apple bidet could be neat. A toaster, too.
lemmeout@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Did you just put “easily repairable” and “Apple” in the same sentence?
tyrant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The bidet is under development. It is going to have cameras to confirm cleanliness using ai.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
… I don’t know if I trust Siri to wash my asshole tbh
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I bought a fancy shmancy toaster and it sucks, matches my mixer but ruins my sammiches.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 days ago
That would probably disrupt the brand too much.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 days ago
An Apple bidet which adds a colonic health section to your Health app