Zuckerberg proclaimed: The future belongs to the smart glasses!

Zuckerberg proclaimed: The future belongs to the smart glasses!

Metas Connect-Konferenz 2024, USA - What influence does Augmented Reality have on our future? Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, gives a clear answer: The era of smartphones is coming to an end. At the METAS Connect conference in 2024, he announced that intelligent augmented reality glasses will be the key to the next technological revolution. What he means exactly is more exciting than you think. Up to two billion people wear glasses every day, which only makes a switch to smart glasses obvious. This technology could become a new standard for many glasses wearers over the next ten years.

Zuckerberg emphasizes that it is time to question the smartphone dominance. In an interview with the podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience", he made it clear that the technology world has been lacking in real innovations in recent decades. Even if he praised the iPhone as an impressive development, he is concerned about the often arbitrary rules that large platform providers enforce. So the need for change is greater than ever.

design and development of the new technology

Meta is in the development of a new generation of smart glasses, which is known as Hyllernova glasses. These glasses have a miniature display in the right glass that shows news, notifications and photo previews. With a price of around $ 1,000, glasses are aimed at users who are looking for more powerful portable technology. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Meta also invests in technologies that want to revolutionize interaction with digital content.

Another interesting approach are the Orion and Artemis projects. Orion is a prototype of fully immersive AR glasses that requires a wrist band to monitor muscle signals and requires a separate computing unit. This technology allows gesture control and real-time interaction with virtual elements and is estimated to cost around $ 10,000. For testers and developers, it should come onto the market in 2026. Artemis, on the other hand, is easier and is to be published in 2027.

The challenge of acceptance

The challenge for Meta is now to move users to exchange their smartphones for the new technologies. This is made difficult not only by the high costs, but also by the habits and the comfort that smartphones offer. Intelligent technology, a competitor, also works on similar projects. How to accept new technologies in society will be exciting to observe.

With the combination of augmented reality, artificial intelligence and 5G connectivity, the entire relationship of man could change into technology. Zuckerberg even sees the possibility that intelligent glasses in the 2030s become the main average of digital interaction, which means that users could be freed from physical restrictions and their productivity and their pleasure. In summary, one can say that the digital age changes and new technologies take the place of smartphones with great hopes. It remains to be seen whether this vision will become a reality. However, it is clear that the course has already been set for a new era of interaction with technology. The time of the smartphone could soon be history.