Qualcomm shares its vision for the future of smart glasses with on-glass Gen AI

Qualcomm has enabled what one of its executives said was a strange and “most interesting conversations– and it was with a pair of generative AI-powered smart glasses.”

In a talk at Augmented World Expo, Ziad Asghar, senior vice president of XR & spatial computing at Qualcomm, said that the chat wasn’t just a simple demo. It was a glimpse into how we’re turning AI glasses, which have long been considered an accessory, into a standalone, comprehensive capable device.

The company also unveiled its Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 processor, which is 26% smaller than the previous generations, to power the demo.

“On Tuesday, as I stood on stage at AWE USA, the world’s largest XR conference, I chatted with an AI assistant through a pair of RayNeo X3 Pro smart glasses powered by Snapdragon technology, – with AI inferencing done on the glasses without relying on the cloud or ...