Apple's next-generation AirPods Pro will feature cameras to see around a user, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami". In a new post on X, Kosutami said that the next AirPods Pro will be able to see around the wearer, presumably via cameras in each earbud. Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the 2026 AirPods Pro will feature a "more significant" hardware upgrade in the form at least one tiny infrared camera.
If you read the article, it’s a small infrared camera for gesture detection or spacial audio. It’s not going to have a high resolution or range
A real camera would be way too much of a power drain for something as small as an earbud.
Which technically could be used to provide visual details, map private spaces, detect faces. Sure it’s not a camera, but it still could be used.
That said, it has a microphone and no one is crying, so…
ok. you are got me to read it.