"In reality, Meta wants its own hardware to eat into the marketshare of Apple and Google so that it doesn't have to keep siphoning profits to them via app stores. But nevertheless, this is the angle Meta is taking to sell its most sophisticated smart glasses yet, the Meta Ray-Ban Display, which the company hopes could one day eclipse the market share of smartphones."
"Meta has had its fair share of flops, like the entire promise of its social metaverse. (Remember when they announced that metaverse avatars would finally get legs?) But with the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta has created a remarkable piece of technology, unlike any other consumer-facing product on the market - we have yet to test it ourselves, so we can't quite say just how groundbreaking this really is, but it looks promising."
Glasses aim to preserve a sense of presence that phones have diminished during in-person interactions. Meta seeks to capture hardware market share from Apple and Google to avoid app-store fees. The Meta Ray-Ban Display is presented as the company’s most sophisticated smart glasses and a potential rival to smartphones. Reality Labs has accumulated about $70 billion in losses since 2020. The new model includes cameras, speakers, microphones, and an on-board AI assistant. The offset display can show Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, directions, and live translations. A Meta Neural Band wristband uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to detect signals between the brain and the hand during hand movements.
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