I would like to add my own prediction for 2027. I believe in the next 4 years, much more comfortable and capable mixed reality glasses and goggles may be somewhat common. Also AI generation and streaming of realistic avatars will have advanced. Quite possibly this will use low-latency Wifi to stream from a PC.
So if you want, you will be able to have a fairly realistic representation of the AI as a synthetic person in the room with you when you put the MR device on. It will have eye contact and seem quite similar to a real person (if you want). You will be able to just talk to it.
Another thing that might become popular could be larger 3d monitors. The type that have some stereoscopic effect tuned to your exact position. So your AI helper might just live in a virtual window or doorway or something like that.
You can actually already build something a bit like this, at least in 2d, without really inventing anything complex. You would use things like a HeyGen or D-ID API and maybe Eleven Labs or something. You won't get eye contact or a realistic 3d avatar that seems to be sitting on your couch, and there will be pauses waiting for it to respond. But theoretically, fast-forwarding several years, those things are not at all insurmountable.
I really doubt it. Modified glasses are too much of a change, compared to earbuds which can be the bridge to the phone in order to provide a conversational assistant. For normal use there is almost no benefit of having something visual available without the need for manual interaction, which is the benefit of glasses compared to the smartphone screen.
But being able to have a verbal communication with a chatbot is of immense help. It can be used while driving, while cleaning or doing anything else which requires the use of your hands or while they are dirty or covered with gloves.
These glasses will be expensive for at least 4 more years and most of us just won't feel the need to invest in it.
I'd rather chew gravel every day for the rest of my life than be forced into the hell of wearing a headset so that I can have my useless morning standups in a virtual room rather than on a 2D screen.
Four years is an eternity in software, especially now that we can have LLMs write the first draft.
Transformers were only invented six years ago after all. Some people are even very optimistically projecting that we'll reach the singularity in the next three.
Making comfortable and capable mixed reality glasses common is not primarily a software problem. In fact, I'd say the challenges are almost entirely unrelated to software, though there probably would be a need for a richer software ecosystem designed for mixed reality for them to really take off.
I would like to add my own prediction for 2027. I believe in the next 4 years, much more comfortable and capable mixed reality glasses and goggles may be somewhat common. Also AI generation and streaming of realistic avatars will have advanced. Quite possibly this will use low-latency Wifi to stream from a PC.
So if you want, you will be able to have a fairly realistic representation of the AI as a synthetic person in the room with you when you put the MR device on. It will have eye contact and seem quite similar to a real person (if you want). You will be able to just talk to it.
Another thing that might become popular could be larger 3d monitors. The type that have some stereoscopic effect tuned to your exact position. So your AI helper might just live in a virtual window or doorway or something like that.
You can actually already build something a bit like this, at least in 2d, without really inventing anything complex. You would use things like a HeyGen or D-ID API and maybe Eleven Labs or something. You won't get eye contact or a realistic 3d avatar that seems to be sitting on your couch, and there will be pauses waiting for it to respond. But theoretically, fast-forwarding several years, those things are not at all insurmountable.