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AI is “OUT”! But not out of its mind.
ChatGPT creates hardware with Apple’s ex-Chief Designer, Google launches 100 AI innovations and Meta makes Ray-Bans smart.
In this edition of the Newsletter “Future. Us and Web 3.0” we see how the convergence of AI, XR and robotics is bringing Artificial Intelligence out into our physical world, presenting itself when needed with simple voice commands, without keyboards and screens.
“Outside” AI, or Physical AI
Artificial Intelligence is becoming “experiential“, bringing real and digital closer together in a mixed or “extended” reality. We analyse here how the areas of robots, cars and people are at the center of Big Tech‘s attention and investments in the field of Physical AI.
OpenAI acquires io and involves John Ive (founder of LoveFrom, Chief Design Officer for Apple until 2019, responsible for the design of iconic products like iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, MacBook Air, Apple Watch and AirPods) in the vision of a new paradigm for the use of AI tools outside of current devices.
Google presents new features (100) concerning relationships between software with Artificial Intelligence and new devices.
Recent research and speeches (Omdia, Meta for NUS 120 in Singapore) underline how AI in the form of Agent / Assistant has prospects of an increasingly constant presence in daily lives through increasingly widespread tools such as smart glasses and visors.
Spatial Computing
Physical AI and Immersive Reality converge in Spatial Computing and we analyze these evolutions through the considerations of Tom Enrich (Niantic) on the convergence of 3D models, IoT systems and classic infrastructures.
Google‘s annual conference I/O 2025: welcome reality!
Google has presented hundreds of new features related to Artificial Intelligence (Gemini) that lead to the convergence with Augmented Reality for a new understanding of the world.
The crux is the new possibilities of dialogue and coexistence between hardware and software: browsers, smart glasses, with Google Street View, Deep Mind, project Astra…
Other news in the smart glasses field
Samsung continues the development of its smart glasses (Haean), Macron has been spotted with Snap‘s Spectacles and new rumors would indicate a smartglasses research by Apple.
We made a short video to bring you an example of the AI now available in Italy with the Meta x Ray-Ban glasses.
AI Agent
Artificial Intelligence agents are increasingly appearing in Big Tech products: from Meta with WhatsApp to Gemini for Google searches, to Copilot in Microsoft Office. Let’s try to understand how we should or could relate to this reality with the help of analyses presented by Harvard Business Review (use of Generative AI), BSG (training and work), BCG (business organization).
Find much more news and curiosities as well as reading and viewings suggestions in the full article available (in italian language) on LinkedIn.
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