Meta AI Glasses – years after years Mark Zuckerberg has spent many billions of dollars to find a way to put a computer on people’s faces. It has yet to happen, but Zuckerberg says that 2025 will be a vital year for this tech to evolve.
Zuckerberg’s Statement on Meta AI Glasses
Now, Mark Zuckerberg says, we’re going to find out if people are really going to buy these things in meaningful numbers – or if the industry is going to have to wait even longer for the future to arrive.
“This will be a defining year that determines if we’re on a path towards many hundreds of millions, and eventually billions of AI glasses, and glasses being the next computing platform, like we’ve been talking about for some time – or if this is just going to be a longer grind,” Mark Zuckerberg the Meta CEO said this during his company’s earnings call on Wednesday.
Zuckerberg has noted some promising signs like the sales of Meta’s Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses which he called a “real hit” on the company’s call.
And last fall, Meta showed off an impressive demo version of its Orion headset, which looks like oversized glasses and is a much more powerful computer than the others. The company is expected to have these glasses ready for consumers to buy in the next few years.
On the other hand, revenue for Meta’s Reality Labs Unit which sells the Ray Bans along with its more cumbersome Quest goggles, remained flat over the last year. Sales of $1.08 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024 were up by 1.1% compared to the previous year.
In the meantime, Reality Labs which also includes the company’s once-hyped metaverse projects has lost more than $60 billion over the past five years.
Zuckerberg didn’t get into details on the question about what’s going to change this year. However, he thinks that AI will make the glasses much more compelling for many more people. And eventually, he insists that if it doesn’t happen this year, it’s going to happen ..
“There are a lot of people in the world who have glasses,” he said on Wednesday’s call. “It’s kind of hard for me to imagine that a decade or more from now, all the glasses aren’t going to basically be AI glasses, as well as a lot of people who don’t wear glasses today finding that to be a useful thing.”
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