Bosworth predicts smart glasses will range from high-end to low-res
Andrew Bosworth · What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech · Apr 24, 2025 · at 1:12
Andrew Bosworth, Meta CTO, discusses the expected spectrum of AI display glasses with David George of a16z.
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“For example, you know, I think the glasses, the smart glasses, the AI glasses, the display glasses that we'll have in five years, Will be good. Some of them will be super high end and pretty exceptional. Some of them will be like actually little and like, just like kind of not even tremendously high resolution displays, but they will be like always available and on your face.”
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