Meta Unveils New Artificial Intelligence Powered Smart Glasses

What Happened?

During Meta’s Connect Conference yesterday the technology giant unveiled new augmented reality smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence. According to Meta, the new smart glasses have longer battery life and higher resolution cameras for full motion video capture. And when worn in conjunction with a Meta-made wrist band, both devices can be linked so that gestures can be used to give instructions to the glasses.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, referred to the new smart glasses as a ‘huge scientific breakthrough,’ while speaking to an audience in Silicon Valley.

Why it Matters

Augmented reality (AR) smart glasses are a more comfortable form of wearable technology when compared to virtual reality (VR) headsets. VR headsets can provide a more immersive visual experience for users, but the devices are often bulkier and heavier, which makes them unsuitable for long-term wear. By contrast, AR glasses are much lighter and less cumbersome, meaning they can be worn for hours with little discomfort, just like regular eyeglasses.

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The new Meta AR glasses, known as ‘The Display,’ will be available this month for a price of $799, which is more expensive than Meta’s leading VR headset, the Oculus. AR glasses like The Display can superimpose images onto the surroundings of the viewer by using micro-LEDS. By contrast, VR headsets create a completely artificial scene for the wearer. 

Meta has spent billions of dollars building data centers to support the operation of new AI programs, and those AI programs are what power the new AR glasses. With the wrist band enabling gestures to give commands to the glasses, Meta is betting that wearable technology will gradually replace handheld screens such as smartphones for everyday users of mobile computing. 

Spatial computing refers to the use of software applications without a desktop, laptop, or smartphone as the primary device for users to interface with those applications. With spatial computing, users can don a set of smart glasses and, through voice commands or gestures, accomplish many of the same tasks they used to perform with mobile devices or traditional computers.

Smartphones remain the most popular option for mobile computing. In 2024, over one billion smartphones were sold worldwide, whereas Meta says it has sold two million smart glasses since 2023. Consumer preference is still strongly in favor of handheld devices, and Meta will face a significant challenge to prove to consumers its smart glasses are superior to their existing smartphones. 

How it Affects You

Meta’s latest entry into the smart glasses market is one of many such products now available for consumer purchase. Though consumers are a long way from replacing smartphones with smart glasses, as the technology for smart glasses continues to evolve, sales continue to increase worldwide.

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