New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising – Yahoo

When you’re online, a browser plugin can block all those annoying ads that pop up and clutter up your screen — but unfortunately we can’t do that to ads in real life. Yet, at least. That could all change after an enterprising software engineer posted an experiment with a pair of smart augmented reality glasses. When you don a pair of the specs and look at a billboard, or even the label on a food container, a red rectangle pops up to block the offending visual clutter from your view. “It’s still early and experimental, but it’s exciting to imagine a future where you control the physical content you see,” said the engineer in question, Stijn Spanhove of Belgium, in a X post flagged by Tom’s Hardware . https://twitter.com/stspanho/status/1935728608514838540 The real-life ad blocker works by harnessing Snapchat’s Spectacles, a pair of chunky black smart glasses built for augmented reality applications, according to Spanhove’s explanation. He used Google’s Gemini AI model as the tool to identify advertisements in real life and block them from view. But the system still needs a little work. When you watch the specs in action, there’s a momentary lag before the glasses pick up the presence
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