Glasses with facial recognition AI promise end to those awkward moments when you forget someone’s name
Rokid Glass can scan social media to match a face in front of you with a name in seconds, and that’s just for starters; created by Chinese start-up Rokid, the AR glasses generated a lot of buzz at CES 2018, and should hit stores this year
Imagine meeting someone you should know but whose name you can’t recall. Now imagine you’re wearing a pair of glasses that will scan social media for a match on their face and display their name in front of one of your eyes within two seconds, sparing you embarrassment.
Not just that. Activate the glasses’ camera function, look at an object and in seconds the brand, model number, its price on e-commerce websites and reviews of the product will scroll in front of that same eye.
If you think that sounds like science fiction, think again: this is what Rokid Glass promises to do. In the words of Rokid’s Reynold Wu, they will offer “an anytime, anywhere AR [augmented reality] visual overlay in front of your eyes [that] effectively synthesises voice interaction, AI, and image AI”.
No wonder the AR glasses generated so much buzz at CES 2018, the consumer electronics show recently in Las Vegas.
“All the people coming to our booth at CES really loved the idea of social integration of facial recognition in Rokid Glass,” says Wu. “That’s what surprised me the most.”