Infrared cameras are expected in both earbud stems

What this is made of

• The cameras will let Siri understand what is around you

  The infrared cameras are expected to let Siri understand what is around the wearer, answering questions about nearby objects without using them for traditional photography.

• An LED will light when data is sent to the cloud

  Gurman reported a small LED indicating when data is being streamed to the cloud for processing. The trigger he described is cloud streaming, not merely the cameras being active.

• You would be able to ask the earbuds to save something you are looking at for later

  Apple's own demo video, found by MacRumors in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, has Siri say that with Visual Intelligence your world becomes savable: see something you like and ask it to save it for later. The video shows the since-dropped B790 model, and Apple has not announced the product.

• The camera feature would recognize landmarks, text and known objects

  Sam Henri Gold found a description in iOS 27 beta code, reported by MacRumors, saying the wearable Visual Intelligence feature works with landmarks, text and known objects, with the Eiffel Tower and a coffee mug given as examples.