Apple’s first-ever pair of smart glasses is most likely coming at some point this year, but what they’ll actually look like is still a pretty open question. Cameras? Most likely. Open-ear audio ? That’s a no-brainer. AI? It’s 2026 after all. If there’s one thing that I’m pretty certain they won’t have, it’s support for first-of-a-kind camera-based hand gestures, though a new and somewhat dubious rumor would suggest otherwise.

According to MacRumors , an “inside source” is suggesting that Apple will use one of the two on-device cameras for a kind of hand-tracking that can read gestures and then translate them into inputs on the smart glasses. While the idea of hand-tracking already exists on devices like the Meta Quest 3 and Vision Pro , putting that technology in a form factor as small as smart glasses would be novel.…