- Mark Zuckerberg makes fun of third generation smart glasses by 2025 in the inverter call
- It also called 2025 a “defining year” for the goal plans of Meta
- We still have no official launch date or price information
Recent leaks suggest that goal is preparing to launch a new generation of smart glasses this year, which are like their existing meta-bans, but with a built-in screen to show progress of the images that break with its camera more notifications of its phone. Although Mark Zuckerberg did not reveal any specific details about these rumored specifications in the recent investor call of the company’s quarter quarter in the fourth quarter of 2024, his comments on a “third generation” of technology and saying that 2025 will be a ” Definitional year “In the intelligent, the category of glasses makes me think that a launch is almost guaranteed.
This is exactly what Zuckerberg said according to the official transcription of the call on the subject of the intelligent goggles Ray-Ban: “Our Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are a real success, and this will be the year in which we understand the Trajectory for AI glasses as a category. Many rupture products in the history of consumer electronics have sold 5-10 million units in its third generation. This will be a decisive year that determines whether we are on their way to many hundreds of millions and, finally, billions of AI glasses. ”
Glossing about the ambitious objective of “billions of AI glasses”, is notable that Zuckerberg highlights the importance of third generation technology to determine the success of the future iterations of that hardware, and then in the next breath he says that 2025 will be the defining year in terms of smart glasses, which suggests that the year will be defined by the success of the third -generation target glasses.
Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses so far have two generations to their credit: Ray-Ban’s original stories that were launched in 2021 and the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Smart glasses in 2023. Then, for a third generation of the hardware until It brings a defining year in 2025, goal would have to launch it first.
Zuckerberg was careful not to promise an explicitly launch, but his comments just go a hair to cross that line, and together with leaks that we have heard that I am sure that we are obtaining new goal specifications this year. So what could they have for us and what do I want to see?
What I want to see from the next Mmart Smart Ray-Ban glasses
1. full color screens
The leaks have not come into details in terms of the precise quality of the hardware components, but they have effectively promised the existing smart glasses with a “small screen in the small lens”, by people familiar with the project. Having tried other smart glasses, this means that the screen will effectively be half in your vision. This will have the advantage that it should not be too dark, although focusing on what you are demonstrating that you can take some time to get used.
Since other leaks suggest that this screen can show its progress of the photos you take with the specifications, I hope that means that it will be in full color, my main application for this screen update, and although I would prefer a solution of two lenses there are A potential advantage that would have only one lens: price.
2. Not too expensive
I hope that Ray-Ban glasses with a screen cost more than the standard pair (without screen) that we currently have at $ 299 / £ 299 / au $ 449, although I hope that rumors can cost $ 1,000 (around £ 800 / Au $ 1,600) are not correct. I understand that innovation is not cheap, but $ 1,000 feels too expensive, especially for a Zuckerberg and Meta Hope product you will see conventional success.
My hope is that they cost somewhere around $ 650 (£ 550 / Au $ 1,050), being lenses updates which perhaps pushes them towards those higher $ 1,000. If the predetermined model is so expensive, then I would expect some updates, such as transition lenses by default (since my smart rays with transition lenses are a game change), improved speakers and an update that I hope they are regardless of a walk Price: better cameras.
3. Updated camera
The 12MP pargo that the existing model boasts is fine for the Look and Applicant tool toi (which allows the AI to see what you see for context in your applications), but I have discovered that quality is not the best, nine Sometimes I prefer to use my phone.
There are times when smart glasses have been incredible for the footage in the first person: I have recorded clips and took photos in the concerts without losing at the time because I am behind the screen of a phone, but an improvement of quality would make my photos more were higher. quality, and would mean that I would trust them much more frequently.
It is unlikely that we have 50MP cameras of smartphone quality, but an impulse to the 12MP count, or some other sensor updates to improve their performance, it would certainly not go wrong.
4. Longest battery duration
Finally, the most important factor that an update needs is the battery. While goal has a maximum battery life of four hours, specifications can only achieve this with more intermittent use, such as asking questions or taking snapshots. If you want to transmit music or broadcast your perspective to Instagram, you will burn your battery faster, and I hope a screen does not help things.
Ideally, the next generation specifications would have at least a real four -hour battery duration with the screen on, although it would accept three hours as a more reasonable objective. If they can only approach at one hours with the screen on, I would worry how useful the specifications will be, although the project will be an act of goal balance between battery, specifications, price and weight.
