I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful
We know smart glasses can play podcasts and put an AI assistant in your ear, but what if they knew what you were feeling ? That's the idea behind Emteq Lab 's Sense glasses. They're not on the market yet, but the end goal is a lightweight pair of specs equipped with sensors that read minute changes in users' facial muscles, all with the goal of detecting real-time mood shifts to unlock insights into health, eating habits, and more. Emteq is one of a growing number of companies in the field of "affective computing," technology designed to recognize, interpret, process, and/or simulate human emotions. For good or ill, the future is likely to be packed with the stuff. How do emotion-sensing glasses work? Credit: Emteq The technology behind Emteq's emotion-tracking glasses is sophisticated, but the concept is s...