According to Amon, this glorious future of glasses booking your dinner and managing your calendar will hinge on “connectivity and perception” driven by a web of sensor-rich personal devices.

“It’s sooner than you think,” he promised, claiming pre-commercial 6G kit could be here by 2028.

That bold timeline ignores the boring reality that 3GPP’s first 6G standard isn’t expected until 2030. Still, Qualcomm has fingers in every relevant pie, from foundational research to standard-setting in Release 20 and beyond, so if anyone's allowed to be a bit cocky, it's probably them.

Amon banged on about a “dynamic, adaptive network of intelligence.” He tied it to edge-heavy compute architectures, hybrid AI models, and the wonderfully vague “AI is the new UI” catchphrase.

One of the standout pitches was for glasses acting as input and output hubs for a personal AI agent, capable of firing off emails, booking reservations and handling life admin before you even blink. Unsurprisingly, this lines up with Meta’s obsession with smart glasses. Qualcomm is neck-deep in that project too.

The company recently joined the Verizon 6G Innovation Forum, sitting alongside Meta, Nokia, Samsung and Ericsson. Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio reportedly wants 6G to launch with “meaningful, new use cases,” although that bar remains undefined.

“For the age of AI, connectivity is evolving so it actually can deliver on this vision,” he said, calling 6G “the connection between the cloud and the edge devices.”