The paper surveys the evolution of smart glasses into AI smart glasses, framing them as wearable intelligence platforms that integrate egocentric sensing, resource-aware computing, intelligent reasoning, multimodal interaction, and real-world constraints for personalized assistance. It organizes the discussion into four dimensions: hardware foundations, wearable intelligence, interaction design, and application scenarios across healthcare, accessibility, learning, daily life, tourism, and industry. The authors identify five cross-cutting research challenges—next-generation hardware, trustworthy egocentric intelligence, lifelong personalized memory, proactive intelligence, and embodied foundation models—to guide future work.
By Xu Yuan, Yi Wang, Zhuohang Jiang, Haohao Qu, Yujuan Ding, Shanru Lin, Guoliang Xing, Hongxia Yang, Jiannong Cao, Qing Li, Wenqi Fan
arXiv:2607. 03213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present OpenGlass, an open-source, privacy-oriented, local-first system for low-latency multimodal visual assistance, with a primary focus on blind and low-vision users.
By Mengzhang Li, Yuan Yao
arXiv:2607. 11689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial general intelligence ultimately requires agents that can reason and act in the physical world.
By Yuanzhi Liang, Xufeng Zhan, Haibin Huang, Chi Zhang, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2609.39378v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world embodied tasks, from everyday activities to professional procedures, require agents to act under physical constraints while tracking evolvin...
By Shulin Tian, Junsu Kim, Shuai Liu, Hao Li, Yujiao Shen, Sihan Li, Zhe Yang, Yeongon Kim, Feiyu Li, Jialin Wu, Yichi Zhang, Wenhui Wang, Runmao Yao, Yuhao Dong, Zhaoxi Chen, Fangzhou Hong, Antonino Furnari, Jingkang Yang, Hongyuan Zhu, Ziwei Liu
Artificial general intelligence ultimately requires agents that can reason and act in the physical world. Action models, vision-language-action policies, and world models have advanced this goal, while World Action Models (WAMs) are particularly promising because they connect candidate interventions with predicted consequences.
arXiv:2609.16697v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World models connect perception and decision-making in embodied intelligence by maintaining hidden state, anticipating consequences, comparing interv...
By Nanjie Yao, Hao Wang, Chong Cheng, Zhikang Chen, Wenzhe Li, Jiafei Lyu, Li Shen, Peilin Zhao, Zongqing Lu, Gao Huang, Steven Hoi, Dacheng Tao, Deheng Ye