The partnership introduced by Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google final 12 months is creating a pair of combined actuality good glasses that hyperlink to the wearer’s smartphone, in response to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. “It’s going to be a brand new product,” Amon instructed CNBC in a latest interview.
“What I actually count on to come back out of this partnership, I need everybody that has a telephone to go purchase companion glasses to go together with it,” mentioned Amon. “I believe we have to get to the purpose that the glasses are going to be no totally different than sporting common glasses or sun shades. After which with that, we will get scale.”
Details about the mission has been extraordinarily slim because the XR partnership was introduced again in February 2023. Whereas the businesses by no means specified what sort of machine they have been engaged on, most rumors prompt it might be a Samsung combined actuality headset pitched as an reasonably priced competitor to Apple’s $3,500 Imaginative and prescient Professional. Google has additionally teased a pair of prototype AR glasses working its upcoming Challenge Astra multimodal AI assistant on the Google I/O occasion in Could.
Amon tells CNBC he’s “extremely happy” with the Ray-Ban Meta Sensible Glasses launched final 12 months, that are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip, and mentioned that generative AI was the “ingredient that was lacking” for growth within the combined actuality market. “AI goes to run on the machine. It’s going to run on the cloud,” mentioned Amon. “It’s going to run some within the glass, some within the telephone, however on the finish of the day, there’s going to be complete new experiences.”
