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- Duke ECE Faculty Voices: A Real-Life J.A.R.V.I.S. Needs a Watchdog
- Does Egocentric AI Truly “See What You See And Hear What You Hear”?
- The Hill I Will Die On: AI Glasses Are A Useful Tool, Not An Interface To Our Entire Lives
- Egocentric AI: The Future Within Reach, With a Sea of Problems Still to Solve
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Duke ECE Faculty Voices: A Real-Life J.A.R.V.I.S. Needs a Watchdog
Duke ECE is featuring my perspective on the role of AI in AR of the future, and on the dire need to employ AI to safeguard the AR of the future, as part of its Faculty Voices: Physical AI series. Full … Continue reading
Does Egocentric AI Truly “See What You See And Hear What You Hear”?
I have used this line so many times myself: smart glasses see what you see and hear what you hear. It is well known in the world of egocentric AI and AR; it appeared verbatim on Meta’s quarterly earnings call … Continue reading
The Hill I Will Die On: AI Glasses Are A Useful Tool, Not An Interface To Our Entire Lives
The hill I will die on: we will need AI glasses for work, and for helping us with well-defined, specific tasks, long before we will need AI glasses worn continuously, all day every day. Humans already use eyewear extensively as … Continue reading
Egocentric AI: The Future Within Reach, With a Sea of Problems Still to Solve
Can you tell that I am wearing smart glasses in this photo? My new toy: RayNeo X3 Pro. Egocentric AI at your fingertips – or pupils? More comfortable to wear than one might expect – I genuinely forget whether I … Continue reading
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Do We Need New Exam Rules for the Smartglasses Era?
It is definitely happening: students are using smart glasses to cheat on their exams. Anecdotal evidence of this has been reported on Reddit for quite some time: for example, this week and two months ago. It is clearly technically feasible to … Continue reading
AR and Wearable AI Need to be Trustworthy to be Useful
A lovely article in The Economist this week: AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users. The article makes a point that is perhaps obvious: AI needs to be reliable to be useful. E.g., omitting the second-highest result … Continue reading
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RIP Magic Leap Headsets
It is official: Magic Leap is no longer making its own headsets. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the layoffs. May you land on your feet; any team will be lucky to have you. Magic Leap has a very … Continue reading
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Is This the Future for Smart Glasses and AI?
If you do not believe that the future is smartglasses + AI, the VisionClaw paper might change your mind. The authors created a system that “running on Meta RayBan smart glasses, continuously perceives real-world context and enables in-situ, speech-driven action … Continue reading
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Smart Glasses, With Back-End AI as a Key Feature: Diverse Models All Co-Existing For The Foreseeable Future?
Incredible things have been happening in the world of smart glasses, thanks to the AI revolution. Long restricted to costly, niche use cases, they are on the cusp of becoming an everyday gateway to AI – in a good way! … Continue reading
Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech (CHCI@VT) Headliner Seminar
Possible at Last: Using Large Multimodal Models to Evaluate and Secure Mixed-Reality Experiences – this was the title of the talk I gave as part of the VT Center for Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Sincere thanks to the organizers for the opportunity … Continue reading
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