If you can’t resist the desire to check your phone over and over again, even if you are out with friends, Meta has a solution: Check your glasses instead.
“The promise of glasses is to maintain this sense of presence with other people,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Meta Connect 2025 Keynote. “I think we’ve lost it a little with phones and we have the opportunity to take it back with glasses.”
In fact, Meta wants its own material to eat in Apple and Google’s marketshare, so that it does not have to maintain their profits through them through application stores. However, this is the Meta corner to sell its most sophisticated smart glasses, the Meta Ray-Ban screen, which the company hopes could close a market share of smartphones.
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Meta had the fair share of Flops, as the whole promise of his social metaverse. (Remember when they announced that Metoverse Avatars will eventually get their feet?) But with the Meta Ray-Ban screen, Meta has created a notable piece of technology, unlike any other product facing consumers on the market-we still haven’t tried ourselves, so we can’t say so.
Like the existing Meta’s existing smart glasses, which have sold millions From couples, the new model has cameras, speakers, microphones and an AI assistant on board. The screen on the glasses, which is offset so as not to prevent its appearance, can display after applications such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, as well as directions and live translations.
What defines the Meta Ray-Ban Display is Meta Neural Band, a bracelet that uses surface electromyography (SEMG) to get the signals sent between your brain and your hand in performing a gesture.
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Meta’s Keynote did not go into the details of the way Zuckerberg writes these texts, but according to Research of the workshops of reality In Semg, users can write messages like this by holding their fingers together as if they were holding a pen and “writing” the text.
While some live Demos in The Keynote failed-Zuckerberg accused Wi-Fi-at least we got to see the bracelet in action, which is more novel. Zuckerberg quickly wrote text messages and then sent them to his rays.
“I am up to about 30 words per minute in it,” Zuckerberg told the stage at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters. “You can get pretty quickly.”
In a touch smartphone like an iPhone, research has estimated that people text in about 36 words per minuteMaking Zuckerberg’s requirement impressive. Participants in the workshop research were on average closer to 21 words per minute.
Unlike Meta Ray-Bans past, this technology allows people to truly use glasses without talking loudly, which is not always natural in public arrangements. While Apple Watch users can send texts without voice prompting, the process is so tiring and slow that it is only useful as a last resort.
Other controls of gestures on the bracelet look more similar to the technology used by consumers before, such as Nintendo Joy-Cons and Apple watches. But if the interface with voice messages is as good as it seems, then the wristband will probably be capable of more complex gestures than we used to.
Meta has invested greatly in SEMG research by 2021, even showing a prototype of a higher product called Orion. Like Apple and GoogleMeta is preparing for a not -so -impossible future, where these smart glasses could possibly closed the smartphone.
But like the danger of any huge material investment, there is no way to know if this will really feel more natural for people in their daily lives than pulling an elegant rectangular aluminum out of their pocket to get messages to their friends.
This can be Meta’s biggest bet – perhaps a bigger bet than his Subpar Metaverse. That is why it is so impressive that Zuckerberg reveals this technology as not only a fascinating innovation, but something he wants to portray as more elementary than the smartphone. It is a way to benefit from our growing discomfort with the ever -increasing time of our screen, even though it is the one that makes the applications that require our attention.
“Technology must escape,” Zuckerberg said.
The smartphone will become an outdated relic like a Nokia with T9 keyboard? This depends on whether there is truth in Zuckerberg’s narrative that these glasses will help us feel more present. But Meta and its competitors bet great for cultural shift from smartphones to smart glasses and the Ray-Ban screen will give consumers their first taste of this possible future.
