Meta’s ‘AI Tamagotchi’ Looks to Me Like a Smartwatch Preview for 2027
As smartwatches head toward becoming AI companions, Meta might be working a new angle.
Meta unveiled the Muse Charm at its Connect conference in late September, a novelty device featuring Meta's adorable Muse AI agent. Coming as soon as December, the Charm could be an AI Tamagotchi or a strapless Apple Watch, potentially marking Meta's entry into wrist wearables. Meta has been developing smart glasses and a new glasses-like VR headset, but wrist wearables have been a bit quiet.
The company already has a neural band with the Ray-Ban Display glasses, but it hasn't received any hardware updates. Meta has promised that EMG could open up various neural input possibilities and has tested the tech in a smart car dashboard prototype. Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth hinted that some sort of display or watch-like evolution of the neural band could be in the works next.
The Muse Charm brings a different piece to the puzzle, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chipset, which is optimized for AI-ready wearables, including watches. A smartwatch could benefit Meta in several ways, such as breaking into lifestyle wearables, offering another way onto people besides faces, providing fitness and health tracking data for Muse and smart glasses, and becoming a key part of the glasses interface's future.
Google and Apple are also integrating smartwatches with AI companions like Gemini and Siri. Meta's Muse is now available on desktops, smartphones, and smart glasses, and the Charm looks like an experiment in making the AI mascot always accessible.
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