Microsoft Copilot Vision preview watches your screen to offer AI help [Video]

Microsoft is slowly launching Copilot Vision in preview, a version of Copilot that “reads over your shoulder” as you browse the web, to Copilot Pro subscribers today.

Microsoft is pitching Copilot Vision as a collaborative assistant that works along with you as you browse the Internet. Vision was part of a suite of new Copilot demonstrations that Microsoft showed off in October, and was easily the most underwhelming example of new Copilot technologies that I’d seen.

Copilot Vision isn’t a multimodal AI capability that can interpret the world around you. Instead, it’s a cross between Windows Recall and the current version of Copilot. Vision is basically a real-time version of Copilot that’s only available in Microsoft’s Edge browser. Instead of asking Copilot for insights, Vision apparently can “scan, analyze and offer insights” based on what your eyes, and its AI sensors, see on the page.

Where might Copilot Vision be useful? Dealing with an overwhelming …