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Apple Camera: See Nothing, Know Everything?
2 Oct
Summary
- Apple plans a smart home camera with text-only event descriptions.
- The device may use on-device AI processing for privacy.
- Facial recognition will identify people but not record video.
Apple is rumored to be developing a new smart home security camera that offers a novel approach to home monitoring. This device is expected to provide users with text descriptions of events rather than video recordings. This privacy-focused feature is part of a larger push by Apple into a new smart home ecosystem.
The camera may employ advanced on-device AI processing, similar to technology being explored for AirPods with cameras. This method would avoid the need to store or secure sensitive image data. While it will include facial recognition to identify people or events, such as someone entering a room, the output will strictly be text-based descriptions, with no video capture or recording capabilities available to the user.
