Apple’s cautious entrance into the smart glasses field means that we have a reasonably good idea what to expect, and have been able to preview some of the capabilities through existing devices.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses have given me two years’ experience of the kind of capabilities we’re expecting from the first Apple Glasses model, and the Even Realities G2 are currently giving me a preview of what we can expect from a later model: smart glasses with a display …
First-gen Apple Glasses
The wait for Apple Glasses won’t be over for some time yet. The latest expectation is that they will be announced at WWDC27 and then go on sale later in the year.
They will be equipped with a camera and therefore able to see what we can see, which will enable them to perform a similar role to Visual Intelligence on the iPhone. The primary benefit here will be the seamlessness of the experience. Instead of having to take our iPhone out of our pocket and open the camera app before pointing it at whatever interests us, we can simply say “Hey Siri” and it will already be able to see what we’re looking at.
