Qualcomm says its smart glasses platform can detect faces without identifying them, obscuring them before an image is ever saved. Ziad Asghar, the company’s senior vice president and general manager for XR, Wearables and Personal AI, set out the approach at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui.

The idea is a camera that senses for context rather than surveillance. Asghar said Qualcomm’s sensing hub can detect a face “not recognise it”, and that a stored image carries no face information because the work happens on the device. “That picture never left the device,” he said.

Qualcomm frames the features as options an OEM can switch on before a device ships, alongside a security subsystem and trust engines built for always-on wearables. Tamper defences include shutting the camera down if someone covers it, and detecting interference with the link between camera and chip.

Asghar added that brands using the platform are free to skip cameras and ship audio-only glasses. Meta’s new camera-free Ray-Bans run a Qualcomm chip.

Source: The Indian Express