Mainstream adoption of fully enclosed VR headsets is unrealistic
“VR may have a specialized role, you know, for more immersive training environments or things like that. Yeah, but even then, I think folks really are going to want to be able to wear glasses and work together, right? I mean, you're going to want to be able to …”
Iovine: Meta and Ray-Ban made a good smart glasses product
“I don't know this company. I don't know the guy. I don't know anything, but I try to pair in those new Facebook Ray-Ban glasses. They made a good product.”
Blumenthal: The Average American Buys Glasses Once Every Two Years
“The average American buys glasses once every two years.”
Wang: Smart Glasses Are the Natural Delivery Mechanism for Superintelligence
“Glasses are the natural delivery mechanism for super intelligence. Like the, it is, you need something that will see what you see, hear what you hear, and they can easily deliver information to you.”
Cohen: Jony Ive and Sam Altman will announce AI glasses
“I think it's gonna be a pair of glasses. I think, like, that's the only form function that my, again, like, Johnny genuinely, like, understands the future, I think, of, god, I'm, like, going into acting mode, but, like, he genuinely understands the like, hardw…”
Roy Lee: Immediate AI opportunity is on desktop, not VR or glasses
“Everyone thinks it's some people think it's VR, some people think it's glasses, some people think it's pendants, and I think right now there's so much money to be made in the computer, and right now, I think it all starts at the computer, so that's where we're…”
Isaacson predicts smart glasses will use phones for compute, not on-device hardware
“I do think that the phone will be the driving compute for whatever the glasses are. I don't think that the compute is going to be happening on the glasses.”
Kumar: Sesame is actively developing smart glasses for its AI companions
“We mentioned on the website and we mentioned some of our launch content that we are working towards glasses as a form factor for Companions, or kind of this companion interface”
Coogan: Smart glasses will become the next major computing platform
“And I do think there is something legitimate about the sunglass and the glasses being, like, the next computing platform, the next, like, major consumer hardware category”
Isenberg: AI will enable real-time 1-of-1 personalized ads on AR and mobile
“So it only makes sense that with AI that AI is going to make the ability to create one of one ads that are gonna show up on your glasses, on mobile, on, on web, in real time.”
Zuckerberg: AR and AI smart glasses will become completely ubiquitous
“I'm pretty sure glasses and kind of, like, holographic presence and AR is going to be a completely ubiquitous Product, right? It's just like everyone who had a phone before replaced it with a smartphone, and then a lot of more people got smartphones. If all we…”
Calacanis: AR glasses will take over a third of computing tasks
“And I bet you glasses are going to take like a third of the tasks you do.”
Brody: Augmented reality will find its true essence through glasses
“I think ultimately augmented reality will find its true essence through glasses.”
Evans: Billions using smart glasses as primary computing is a decade away
“And the same thing for quote-unquote metaverse, which is, you know, what point do we think we might have billions of people wearing something that looked like a pair of glasses as their main or only computing experience? And is that, that, and that's a sort of…”
Apple uses iPhone AR features as building blocks for future smart glasses
“But you, but for glasses, clearly what they're doing is they're building that building block in the glass, in the phone, so that it's ready when they have the glasses.”