Apple accidentally leaked its upcoming camera-equipped AirPods earlier this week, and the latest macOS update has revealed even more information about the upcoming accessories. It’s worth mentioning that you should take this leak with a grain of salt.
Reportedly, each earbud will have its own camera, and Visual Intelligence will sync each shot to make a whole image. The cameras will only take still RGB images up to 1MP.
Additionally, the buds will account for head movement, but the AirPods will reject images with excessive movement. The leak indicates that some of the processing will happen on-device, which is pretty impressive for earbuds.
The AirPods will not shoot video but will be periodically capturing images, and Visual Intelligence will be used to understand what the AirPods see.
However, this seems to be how the AirPods work passively, and there will be an active mode, which allows the AirPods to take higher-quality images. But this isn’t to capture pictures for us to use or anything, and likely the device goes into active mode when you’re asking Siri a question.
Alongside the new AirPods, Apple is poised to launch the iPhone 18 alongside the rumoured iPhone Ultra (which now may be called iPhone Duo).
Source: MacRumors
