Do the glasses really smarter? In any case, for Mark Zuckerberg, wearing connected glasses will soon be essential if you do not want to be at a disadvantage professionally.
As seen by Techcrunch, on the occasion of the presentation of the results of the second quarter of 2025, the Meta CEO wanted to remember the participation behind the “smart gabs.”
“Our main computer devices”
The Facebook matrix company has made its new recreational patio glasses. The company is already collaborating with two glasses manufacturers: Ray-Ban and Oakley. She wants to turn it into an essential accessory, that Mark Zuckerberg describes as “ideal means to mix physical and digital worlds.”
The American company sees in these pairs of smart glasses, a bridge to submerge AI in our daily lives. His CEO explains that an AI “that knows us deeply, understands our goals and can help us achieve them” will find all its usefulness.
A diversification of models
Goal Ray-Ban sold almost a million copies in 2024, a figure that Zuckerberg expected to multiply by five in 2025, as announced to its employees at the beginning of the year.
With this ambition, the company diversifies its range of pairs. Since June 2025, he has been offering pairs of the manufacturer Oakley, with similar characteristics to those of Ray-Ban.
But the technological capabilities of the “made in finish” peers will take a new step with the Orion glasses. The latter integrates the augmented reality, which allows to digitally show information in the user’s field of vision. Still in the prototype state, this model must be marketed since 2027.
A technology in advance in its time
The Reality Company laboratories division, particularly in charge of connected glasses, has been a financial abyss for several years. Again this quarter, generated $ 4.5 billion in losses, according to the results communicated per finishing. Without knowing the details, it is a sure bet that the development of metovers is largely responsible for such a sum, and not necessarily of the connected glasses.
Continuing designing your glasses is a bet in the future of a Mark Zuckerberg full of optimism. But for the moment, the latter still has to justify interest with this technology with its investors.
In this field, others failed before finishing. This was the case of Google, who had experienced a bitter commercial failure with his Groth Glass. But not to leave the field open to goal, some American technological giants could be grafted in the connected glasses market.
Rumors suggest that Apple seeks to design its own glasses by 2027. After the acquisition of a new company specialized in eye monitoring, a Google return is also possible.
Source: BFM TV
