While billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always been an early adopter of new technologies, people who don't now adopt smart glasses sitting on the bleeding edge of wearable technology risks falling behind.
Zuckerberg said in the company's second quarter revenue call that future people would inevitably want to wear smart glasses like the company's $299 Metaray-Ban.
“In the future, if you don't have glasses that have a way to interact with AI or AI, you probably do the same, you do the same. [going to] It's a pretty important cognitive disadvantage compared to others, and compare it to the people you work with or compete with,” he said on the phone.
Like regular glasses that help you fix bad visions, smart glasses are the main way Zuckerberg's company accesses and uses “Superintelligence,” where a highly paid team of researchers led by AI Wunderkind Alexandr Wang.
Zuckerberg added that people use Meta smart glasses more frequently because they are actually “stylish eyewear.” According to the latest revenue report from Essilorluxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban, the company, revenue from Metaray-Ban has more than tripled year-on-year.
Meta AI running glasses is constantly improving, Zuckerberg adds, and in the future it could also retain more prominent hardware upgrades, including visual displays.
“This also unlocks many values that can interact with AI systems throughout the day in this multimodal way. It allows you to see the content around you, generate a UI for you, show you information, and can be useful,” he said.
With the help of smart glasses, a complete immersion in this type of technology will help Meta realize Zuckerberg's once favorite buzzword, Metaverse.
“The great thing about glasses is that it will be an ideal way to blend the physical and digital worlds, so I think the whole metaverse vision will be very important.
After debuting Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses in 2021, the company has since expanded its collection to include the Oaklevel brand in its “Performance AI Glasses” line. The company plans to release full-scale AR glasses by 2027. Barge It has been reported.
On Wednesday, Meta broke analyst expectations and performance in the same period last year, earnings of $47.5 billion in the second quarter. The company also reported a 36% year-on-year profit jump of $18.3 billion in the quarter.
