It’s time for Meta to add a display to its smart glasses

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About a month ago, I was walking in Williamsburg, and Brooklyn’s elegant lover stopped me to ask about Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses that I was testing. After a few weeks, I went to dinner with a friend who had not seen him years ago. We were not even walking to the train I noticed that they were wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses. I went to a concert, drew my head, and I saw someone in my section with the Ray-Bans recording. The next day, the quick search told me that clips uploaded to Tiktok.

He hit me. Ordinary people are not only curious about smart glasses. They are in reality Purchase And use it. I began to discover them in the wilderness. When Meta takes the stage next week at the annual Connect event, natural People will ask: What comes after that?

No one expected much when the company launched the second generation of Ray Banz almost two years ago. (I mean, its first -generation glasses were bonafid fluctuation, where 90 percent of users abandoned the device. Now, it is in 2025, and the company sold two million pairs. Its partner company Essilorluxotica plans to increase production to some extent 10 million By the end of 2026, this success is the reason why smart glasses were all over the CES exhibition hall last January. To date, most people have been associated with smart glasses with a severe failure in the original Google Glass Explorer version.

Can you wear some Meta’s success at the time. There are things that happen now: crazy intelligence, searching for artificial intelligence devices, and tiktok era has been normal in public places, to name a few. But what was really created here was the implementation of the implementation on a very old idea.

Google Glass has emerged like a painful thumb – she had Vegeta extremist from Dragon Ball z Feelings-Meta cooperated with Ray-Ban to create elegant but secret glasses that do not look like technology. It has reduced the cost of entry from $ 1500 to $ 300 at reasonable prices. Good sound quality. Camera quality Shockingly Good enough to post on Instagram, which makes this a useful tool for content creators. Amnesty International’s addition was a questionable step, but I have since heard from many low and blind visions who say that the glasses filled with Amnesty International have helped them live a more independent life.

That is why my inbox is overwhelmed by the stadiums for the legend with Meta. Hell, perhaps the reason Google She suddenly suddenly suddenly threw the smart glasses episode after years of pretending to convert the entire glass opening never.

But it is not enough to keep a continuous dead momentum.

Meta may be the most well -known smart glasses maker at the present time, but its competitors will soon penetrate its progress. Looking at the current competition – the initial models of Google Android XR, Xreal One Pro, Rokid glasses, and even G1 facts, to name a few – all have a kind of display. And while I get the desire for less Screen, add one to the glasses that allow more possibilities without limits.

I have no sense of direction. I include many of my aspects anxiously to my phone to see if I am going to go in the right way. It will be much more beautiful if I can say “hey, give me directives to the library” in my glasses and the path emerges in my sight. You were killed for a follow -up display while presenting high school offers instead of trying to decipher the chicken scratch on the index cards. I like it if, when I go on a family vacation to Italy this fall, I can look at the menu and only see the translation emanating without having to take a photo or talk to artificial intelligence or open a phone application to display the translation there. The heck, perhaps the presence of notes and recipe in my visual line during cooking means fewer burning dinner.

These are simple suggestions, but they deal with many problems that you faced with sound glasses only. Part of the appeal is a hand -free and free living living. Currently, you can either be free of hands or free from the phone, but both are rarely at one time. Given this, I bet we will see a copy of the identification glasses with an offer that was revealed next week. My colleague Alex Heath has widely reported about Hypernova, and we also saw confirmed reports from CNBC.

However, the return of these smart glasses is not guaranteed. While you gain steam, it is in a fragile state. We are more comfortable with people who are photographed everywhere, but this does not mean that everyone is on the risk of additional privacy.

While writing this, I kept thinking about my last Liz Lopatto colleague about the death of his identity, and we are all fodder for the content mill because everyone is photographing everywhere, all the time. This only becomes more It is true when you throw smart glasses in the mixture. This does not touch even the Dystopian, as is the case when the border patrol agent owns Ray Panz during a migration raid, and a beauty expert defines a customer by wearing glasses within a date for Brazilian wax, and universal children convert it into a tool in the actual time.

This is not a problem that will be solved next week in Connect, mainly because it cannot be. It is a community conversation that we will have all each other Because these devices become more popular. Meta can provide instructions on how to use it (and do it (and do), however we They will write cultural rules in real time. I hope it is less violent than the last time this technique has entered the prevailing conscience.

The only only case (and every other company jumps to this space) is to prove that these devices will make life So It is much better that it exceeds the negatives. It is a long arrangement. The show will not help them win the controversy overnight. But that will tend more than ever in their favor – and this is a momentum that cannot lose.