If you cannot resist the request to check your phone repeatedly, even if you are out with friends, there is a solution in the meta: check your glasses instead.
In the Meta Connect 2025 Keenot, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “The promise of glasses is to preserve the feeling of this appearance that you have with other people.” “I think we have lost it a little with the phone, and we have the opportunity to bring it back with glasses.”
In fact, Meta wants to eat its own hardware in Apple and Google’s Marketshare so that it does not need to benefit them through the app store. But still, it is Angle Meta, which is carrying its most sophisticated smart glass to sell, the Meta Ray-Ban display, which the company expects to accept the market share of the smartphone one day.
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Meta had its own proper part of the flop, such as full promises of its social metavors. (Remember when he announced that the metavors avatars will finally get legs?) But with the Meta Ray-Ban display, Meta has created a remarkable piece of technology, unlike any other consumer-supporting product on the market-we have yet to test it, so we cannot say how it is really, but it promises.
Like the existing smart glasses of the meta, who have sold Millions In pairs, the new model has cameras, speakers, microphones and an on-board AI assistants. Performing on glasses, which is offset not to disrupt anyone’s vision, can display meta apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, as well as direction -guidelines and live translations.
Meta Ray-Ban sets the display the most, the meta neural band, a restband that uses surface electromography (semg) to take the signals sent between your brain and your hand when a gesture.
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Meta’s Keenot was not in the nuances of how Zuckerberg was writing these texts, but accordingly Research of reality labs On Semg, users can hold their fingers together and write such messages as they were holding a pen and “writing” the text.
While some live AI demo failed in Keenot, Juckerberg blamed Wi-Fi-we saw at least in action, which is a more novel. Zuckerberg quickly wrote text messages, then sent him to his ray-ban.
“I am about 30 words in a minute on this,” Zuckerberg said on stage at the company’s Menlo Park Headquarters. “You can get very fast.”
On a touchscreen smartphone like an iPhone, research has speculated that people read about it 36 words per minuteTo make Zuckerberg’s claim effective. Research participants of reality labs performed on average close to 21 words per minute.
Unlike the previous meta ray-bamboo, this technique allows people to use glasses without actually speaking loudly, which are not always natural in public settings. While the Apple Watch can send the texts without user voice promises, the process is so tedious and slow that it is only useful as the last remedy.
Other gestures on the restband seem more similar to control technology that consumers have used earlier, such as nintendo joy-curses and apple watches. But the more good it looks like the Voyxon Texting Interface, the better, the restband will probably be able to more complex gestures as we use.
Meta has invested heavily in research on SEMG since 2021, even showing us a prototype of a Heftier product called Orion. Like apple and GoogleMeta is preparing for not one-to-unlike future, where these smart glasses can potentially accept the smartphone.
But as there is a risk with any massive hardware investment, there is no way to know if it will actually feel more natural for their day-to-day people than pulling a smooth aluminum rectangle from their pockets to their day to day people.
This can be the biggest bet of meta – perhaps a bigger bet over the metavors on its subjugation. This is why it is so striking that Zuckerberg is not only unveiling this technique as an attractive innovation, but is something that he wants to portray as more prosecution than the smartphone. This is a way for him that he is going to capitalize on our growing screen time, even if he is going to make our attention -demanding apps.
“The technique needs to be removed from the way,” Zuckerberg said.
Will the smartphone become an obsolete remnant like Nokia with a T9 keyboard? It depends on whether Zuckerberg’s story is the truth that these glasses will help us feel more present. But Meta and its competitive smartphones are placing big bets on cultural changes from smartphones to smart glasses, and Ray-Ban display will give consumers the first taste of this possible future.
