Effective wireless transmission of binocular video from earbuds

Determine whether Bluetooth-based wireless protocols used by consumer wireless earbuds can effectively transmit binocular camera video streams with sufficient bandwidth for egocentric visual tasks.

Background

The paper integrates low-power cameras into wireless earbuds and streams imagery over Bluetooth for on-device vision–LLM inference. Compared to audio, camera data has substantially higher bandwidth requirements, and binocular capture doubles the data rate.

Given strict size, weight, and power constraints of earbuds and the low-bandwidth characteristics of Bluetooth, the authors flag uncertainty about whether these wireless protocols can sustain binocular video streaming necessary for visual intelligence applications.