Jaeden Schafer

We've seen Google also working on this as well.

And, you know, Apple's rumored to potentially be thinking about it.

But I think I think Meta really is is winning and they're in the lead right now with their smart glasses and their collaborations with Ray Bans and Oakley's.

Um, what's interesting with with all of that is, you know, they're pulling back from their metaverse investments, the reality labs, they're cutting a lot of different programs there.

So it feels like it's kind of getting allocated elsewhere.

Zuckerberg said billions of people wear glasses or contacts for vision correction were at a moment similar to when smartphones arrived, it was only a matter of time before flip phones became smartphones.

It's hard to imagine a world in several years where most glasses people wear aren't AI glasses.

I'm going to agree with Zuckerberg on this and say, I think one of Meta's biggest advantages, right?

I think they built like these VR headsets and they were like, they're going to be their own compute platform.

And even Apple, when they came out with their VR headset was like, it's spatial compute, right?

They all want to like make it a new device, a new kind of system.

And Meta kind of wanted to do it to get away from the Apple and Google duopoly of, you know, smartphone operating systems.

They wanted to build their own operating system.

The VR headsets, it just isn't, you know, something that everyone's going to walk around with a VR headset, but everyone would walk around with glasses and glasses basically give you all of the same functionality and benefits where you have a speaker next to your ear.

You have a camera on the front of it.

You have a microphone in it that you can talk to.

It's, you know, it can superimpose things onto your lens.

It's just so useful.

I think it's going to be a big shift and you'll actually see people using those more and more other instead of just like a smartphone, for example.

So Zuckerberg also said that the sale of meta glasses tripled over the last year.