Apple's Smart Glasses Could Become Its Next Health Device
Bloomberg says the devices could eventually track workouts, monitor heart rate and guide exercise with cameras and sensors.
- Apple's Vision Products Group is seeking a "Strategic Product Design Leader" to "define the future of health, well-being and fitness experiences across vision products," signaling the company's intent to build health capabilities into future smart glasses.
- Gurman said the ambition traces back to the Vision Pro, where Apple explored an integrated Apple Fitness+ feature before abandoning the project because the headset was too heavy for comfortable use during workouts.
- Sensors embedded in future glasses could monitor exercise form and track movement, building on Apple's strategy of transforming AirPods and Apple Watch into advanced health tools that feed into its growing wearable ecosystem.
- These health capabilities likely won't appear in the first generation of Apple's smart glasses, expected to debut late next year, as the company plans to introduce such features gradually over several years.
- Facing privacy concerns and competition from Meta's camera-equipped glasses, Apple is positioning its wearable as a health-focused device, prioritizing fitness tracking over the complex AR overlays found in rival products.
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Apple's Smart Glasses Could Become Its Next Health Device
Apple wants its future glasses and headsets to double as health and fitness devices, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said the ambition traces back to Vision Pro's early development, when Apple weighed a number of ambitious health and fitness features for the headset.
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