Gary BlackA recent roadmap presentation revealed plans including Meta Smart Glasses Coming In 2025 Report
A further supply of devices will be ready by 2027.
A second generation of camera-equipped glasses is on the horizon, and some predictions will replace the current mobile devices or take some market share. Full reference to the cited work is provided at the end of this post.
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Release of the first pair
According to the article’s source
Meta plans to release its first pair of smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch designed to control them… Meanwhile, its first pair of full-fledged AR glasses, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted will eventually be as widely used as mobile phones, is planned for 2027.
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Meta’s Reality Labs division on Tuesday during a roadmap presentation of its AR and VR efforts…
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Meta did not comment on the setbacks and costs. It claims to be planning on investing in consumer hardware.
In addition,
the company stated thousands of employees building future AR glasses and wrist devices for controlling them.
AR glasses are designed to be worn all day and are likely to replace smartphones.
Zuckerberg has called them the “holy grail” device that will “redefine our relationship with technology” by the end of this decade.
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Alex Himel, the company’s vice president for AR, laid out the plan for a bevy of devices through 2027.
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The good news about the launch
The first launch will come this fall with the second generation of Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses it released in 2021 with Luxottica, the parent company of Ray-Ban.
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More about the “viewfinder” from Himel
In 2025, … for viewing incoming text messages, scanning QR codes, and translating text from another language in real-time. The glasses will come with a “neural interface” band that allows the wearer to control the glasses through hand movements, such as swiping fingers on an imaginary D-pad. Eventually, he said the band will let the wearer use a virtual keyboard and type the same words per minute as what mobile phones allow.
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Reference
This is Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years (2023)
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