Meta's 'AI Tamagotchi' Looks to Me Like a Smartwatch Preview for 2027 - CNET

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I was in the audience at Meta’s Connect conference in late September when Mark Zuckerberg held up a pendant in his hands and surprise announced the Muse Charm, a little novelty-like device with Meta’s disarmingly adorable Muse AI agent onboard. Muse Charm is coming as soon as December this year.

But the funny thing is, while most people called it an AI Tamagotchi, all I saw was a strapless Apple Watch. Is that what the Muse Charm could be, eventually? A watch as well as a pendant? Is this Meta’s entry to wrist wearables in disguise? I’m still thinking about it…because smartwatches are also on their way to being AI assistants soon, too.

Reports of Meta working on its own watch wearable have been cooking for several years now. At Connect, there were smart glasses galore and even a new glasses-like VR headsetcoming next year. But things were...

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