At September’s Meta Connect 2024 event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showcased the company’s impressive Project Orion. He also discussed the growing success of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Smart glasses are becoming a more versatile and appealing product. In fact, Zuckerberg believes its potential will only increase. “Smart glasses are going to become the next major computing platform,” he said in an interview after the event.
Zuckerberg emphasized that this doesn’t mean smartphones will disappear. “Each new platform doesn’t tend to just replace the old one,” he said. In the end, while being the primary computing platform of our time, phones haven’t completely replaced PCs.
However, the Facebook co-founder did predict a shift in future trends:
“So, what I think is going to happen with glasses is we’re going to get to this point, probably sometime in 2030, where you have your phone with you, but it’s gonna stay in your pocket morebecause you’re just gonna be doing more and more things on your glasses that maybe today you would do on your phone. You’ll reach a point where, you know, just like with your computer, there are probably some things that could be done in a richer way or better in some way on your phone but the glasses will be your main computing platform.”
Zuckerberg echoed this prediction in another interview with YouTuber Cleo Abram. He highlighted that smart glasses offer a more natural and social experience compared to phones, which often act as barriers to personal interaction:
“I think that the trend in computing is it gets more ubiquitous, it gets more natural, and it gets more social. So you want to be able to interact with people in the world around you, and I think that this is going to be the next major platform after phones.”
Smart glasses provide a less intrusive and more organic way to engage with others. In addition, interest in this type of product is slowly growing among other manufacturers. Google is working on Project Astra, Baidu is developing its own smart glasses, and even Apple seems to be creating a similar device.
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