23 Oct 2025
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Mike Boland
AWE Talks: How Will Wearables Unlock Physical AI?
AWE USA 2025
Welcome back to AWE Talks, our series that revisits the best AWE conference sessions. With AWE USA 2025 concluded, we have a fresh batch of session footage to sink our teeth into for weeks to come.
We continue the action this week with a look at AI wearables. Will eye-level AI unlock new capabilities? Where will the value be seen most? And what challenges stand in the way? A heavy-hitter panel dives in.
See the summarized takeaways below, along with the full session video. Stay tuned for more video highlights each week and check out the full library of conference sessions on AWE’s YouTube Channel.
Speakers
Johannes Peeters, VoxelSensors,
Bharath Rajagopalan, STMicroelectronics
Irena Cronin, Infinite Retina
Dr. Sandhya Santhosh, Collins Aerospace
Mike Stefanick, Qualcomm
Speakers
Johannes Peeters, VoxelSensors,
Bharath Rajagopalan, STMicroelectronics
Irena Cronin, Infinite Retina
Dr. Sandhya Santhosh, Collins Aerospace
Mike Stefanick, Qualcomm
Key Takeaways & Analysis
– AI's rapid advancement happens parallel to the rise in wearables, such as smart glasses.
– When you combine these two trends, there are potentially-powerful outcomes.
– This opportunity is based on the notion that AI can be more effective when at eye level.
– When it sees what you see, it can be a more capable assistant or co-pilot.
– For consumers, that means more ambient intelligence about one's surroundings.
– In enterprise settings, it means integration with IOT data to supercharge productivity.
– But AI wearables aren't without challenges, such as ongoing hardware issues.
– For example, capability and wearability are opposing forces, raising design dillemas.
– Other considerations include processing and power: are they tethered, standalone, etc.
– There are also varying market needs, personas and use cases to accomodate.
– So an ongoing question is how to reconcile and address all those needs in one device.
– The answer may end up being a divergence and diversity of purpose-built form factors.
– However, the market isn’t big enough today to support that divergence and fragmentation.
– But it will get there, and hardware will branch out, just like it has in other areas of tech.
– Meanwhile, AI wearables are faced with equal parts opportunity and challenge.
For more color and depth, see the full session below...
Want more XR insights and multimedia? ARtillery Intelligence offers an indexed and searchable library of XR intelligence known as ARtillery Pro. See more here.
– There are also varying market needs, personas and use cases to accomodate.
– So an ongoing question is how to reconcile and address all those needs in one device.
– The answer may end up being a divergence and diversity of purpose-built form factors.
– However, the market isn’t big enough today to support that divergence and fragmentation.
– But it will get there, and hardware will branch out, just like it has in other areas of tech.
– Meanwhile, AI wearables are faced with equal parts opportunity and challenge.
For more color and depth, see the full session below...
Want more XR insights and multimedia? ARtillery Intelligence offers an indexed and searchable library of XR intelligence known as ARtillery Pro. See more here.
