Right here’s what we all know: it’s in all probability not sensible glasses. Past that, we don’t know a lot about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are constructing by way of their newly mixed firm io, besides that it’s some form of AI super-gadget. However after a few years of watching the business try to shove AI into each kind issue you possibly can think about, we’ve got some guesses.
On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to speak by way of all of the issues we all know, form of know, and don’t know in any respect about what io is as much as. There’s some fascinating reporting on the notion of the machine as a companion to your telephone and laptop computer, some connections to the unique iPod Shuffle, and nonetheless a number of questions on how it will work and whether or not you’ll need it. We received’t see this machine for some time, however don’t fear — we’ll absolutely preserve speaking about it.
Lastly, within the lightning spherical, it’s time for one more version of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, as a result of, nicely, you realize the rationale. We additionally discuss some breaking sensible glasses information from Apple, and Alex’s expertise with the Android XR prototypes at I/O. It looks like everyone besides OpenAI is betting on sensible glasses. We’ll see who’s proper.
If you wish to know extra about every part we focus on on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, first on io:
And in Microsoft Construct / internet information:
And within the lightning spherical: