Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes that most people in the future will be walking around wearing “smart glasses” powered by artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
On Monday, July 29, Zuckerberg attended the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) conference in Denver, Colorado, as one of the guest speakers, alongside other tech executives such as Dava Newman of MIT Media Lab and Mark Sagar of Soul Machines.
While speaking with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, Zuckerberg said he predicts that smart glasses will become the norm in the near future. The Meta CEO said he thinks there will be an array of different “glasses products” at “different price points” and capabilities will soon flood the market. He then mentioned the new Ray-Ban Metas released by his company and said that based on how that product is doing, he predicts “display-less AI glasses” could sell for an average of $300 a pair.
Zuckerberg said smart glasses utilizing AI will become “a really big product” and that “tens of millions” to “hundreds of millions of people” will eventually own a pair. According to Zuckerberg, such glasses would incorporate a “super interactive AI” that users can talk to, and it will talk back to them.
In 2021, Meto partnered with Ray-Bans to release its first line of smart glasses. The company then announced earlier this year that new updates to Meta AI will enable the tech to be used by wearers. During the conference in Denver, he said Meta is already developing the next generation of these glasses. Zuckerberg said the “goal” was to also make sure the glasses were fashionable so users could wear something functional that also “looks great.”
The current version of the Meta glasses features camera sensors for videos, photos, livestreams on social media, video calls, and more. The product also features a speaker and microphone to interact with the AI, which will be a virtual assistance to the wearer.
Meta isn’t the only company working on such technology. Google has been working on computerized glasses for over a decade, and Snap Inc. is also developing similar products.
