For our entire lives, we’ve been living
through a computing revolution.
Many of you here in this room
have contributed to it,
with leaps forward in compute,
connectivity, mobile technologies,
and now AI.
For my part, I've dedicated
my entire career to augmented reality,
fusing the real world
with computing experiences.
I started this journey
about 25 years ago for my PhD.
It might sound groundbreaking,
but check out these early prototypes.
The technology was really
primitive back then,
but the potential felt limitless
when we were experimenting
in that university lab.
What I didn't know at that time
was many of the fundamental
innovations for my work
would come from AI researchers
in a different lab.
While I was helping
computers see the world,
these AI researchers were helping
computers reason about the world.
Since then, large language models
and multimodal reasoning
have enabled richer
language and image understanding.
These models are now fast enough
for live conversations
where the AI can act on your behalf