Link: Meta Explores AI-Assisted Earphones With Cameras

To make camera-equipped earbuds, the cameras could be placed on the rounded outer part of the earbud, with the goal of capturing an ultrawide angle, Clark said. Footage from the two earbuds “can then be stitched back together,” he said, creating a “complete 360-degree image.” For companies like Meta, adding cameras to earbuds would allow users to map their surroundings. Using AI, the device could tell a user what they were looking at and how far they were from their office, for example. #

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