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A 17-year-old teenager revolutionizes chess: The glasses he developed show perfect moves!

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January 15, 2025

Eddy Xu, a 17-year-old Columbia University student living in New York, USA, has started a huge debate in the chess world with the technology he developed. By modifying his Meta x Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, Xu has created a device that can always show the best move in a game of chess.

17-year-old Eddy Xu has developed a device that can show the best moves while playing chess by hacking his Meta x Ray-Ban Smart Glasses. This innovation has sparked great debate in the chess world.
Xu attracted attention by sharing an image of this innovative device on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Chess.com’s official account responded to the post by first saying “Uh oh” (Oh my) and then commenting “This is incredibly cool, awesome work.” Xu explained that he developed these modified AI-powered glasses with another student, Caden Li, at the “Teen Hacks LI” event.
Responding to a question about the device’s working principle, Xu stated that they “first detected the corner points and normalized the images, and then used a standard object detection model” to transform the real-life chessboard into a digital form.
Xu, who also clarified the misconceptions about the functioning of smart glasses, stated that there is no screen on the lens in the current models of these glasses. He said that the glasses transfer the information they see to a phone or an external screen, and then transmit it to the user through speakers.
However, there are rumors that future Meta glasses could include integrated display technology.
It has sparked controversy in the chess community. While some have praised the innovation as a technological achievement, others have expressed concerns that it could undermine the integrity of chess.
Whether chess players in Washington Square Park will use such technology is also a topic of debate. Residents say such high-tech gadgets do not fit into the park’s traditional atmosphere.

But in a world where technology is rapidly advancing, it’s not surprising that things that have never been seen before are happening.

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