Apple Watch gets cameras (but they are not what you think for)

The Apple Watch will change considerably in the future and will receive a number of cameras, but they are not to photograph with.

Apple Watch gets cameras

Apple is planning to make more an AI-Wearable in the future of the Apple Watch. For that reason, the company is already working on several versions of future Apple Watch models with cameras. So they are not to photograph with the Apple Watch. They are there According to Mark Gurman Van Bloomberg only so that the device can ‘see the outside world’.

This AI development goes hand in hand with the existing visual intelligence technique from Apple, which also wants to bring the company to the AirPods. At the moment, visual intelligence is highly dependent on chatgpt and on Google, but according to Gurman, Apple wants to do it internally in the future:

“Apple’s Ultimate Plan for Visual Intelligence Goes Far Beyond the iPhone. The Company Wants To Put The Feature At The Core of Future Devices, Including the Camera-Equiped Airpods That I’ve Been Writing Abs. Own ai Models, Rather Than Those from OpenAI and Google. ”

(“Apple’s ultimate plan for Visual Intelligence goes much further than the iPhone. The company wants to put the function at the center of future devices, including the AirPods with cameras that I have been writing about for months. Gradually, Apple Visual Intelligence also wants to move towards its own AI models, rather than those of OpenAI and Google.”)

In the screen and on the side

Regarding Apple Watch models with cameras, Gurman reports that Apple is working on this for both the standard Apple Watch models and the Apple Watch Ultra models. With the standard Apple Watch, these are probably built into the display, just like with an iPhone. For the time being it is unclear whether this requires a recess for the camera or not.

At the Apple Watch Ultra, Apple is planning to place the camera on the side of the smartwatch, next to the digital crown and the button on the side. Apple probably does this because they have more room on this model to work with. Gurman says that Ultra users can more easily focus their wrist on things to scan them.

According to Gurman, this new Apple Watch would appear at the earliest in 2027, probably around the same time as the AirPods with camera that rumor. All this depends on whether the AI ​​teams from Apple get things in order, since there are currently still problems with rolling out advanced Apple Intelligence functions for Siri.