smart glasses

20 statements across 13 episodes · 12 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2024 by Joelle Pineau · across every show →

Everything said about smart glasses, oldest first

Jan 24, 2024 negative
Insight
Pineau: LLaMA alone cannot power smart glasses without physical world grounding
“LAMA on its own doesn't make for the best, ah, the best assistant on, on glasses, because it doesn't have enough of an understanding of the physical world of images, ah, and so on.”
Joelle Pineau Jan 24, 2024 ▶ 17:36 Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
Oct 4, 2024 negative
Insight
Bosworth: Building smart glasses purely for notifications is an anti-pattern
“Anti-patterns that I've been telling people about for these glasses is just having to be notification services because notification services are an invitation to leave the present moment and instead go elsewhere. Like that's what a notification is intended to …”
Andrew Bosworth Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 4:03 Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bosworth: Smart glasses will offer proactive assistance smartphones cannot match
“Because the glasses are on your face, they're not in your pocket, and they have the ability over time, not immediately, to become aware of the world and to understand what you're trying to do in the world they can actually be very proactively helpful just to y…”
Andrew Bosworth Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 7:53 Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
Nov 15, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2027
Kantrowitz: Apple will soon release Siri-powered smart glasses to rival Meta's offering
“And I think it's not going to be too long until we see Apple build a product like this of their own, if not one with an enhanced Siri to hit one of your most favorite things.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 50:48 Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Winarski: Real-time visual AI assistants are likely, but privacy risks loom
“So more and more this, your vision, what you just said is not only possible, but likely unless people have access to your information and start sending you ads every which way.”
Norman Winarski Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 21:51 The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship, According Two Leading Innovators
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Demis Hassabis predicts hands-free smart glasses will go mainstream within years
“So I think that glasses and maybe other form factors that are hands-free will come into their own in the next few years. And we, you know, we plan to be at the forefront of that.”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 37:02 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
May 21, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Hassabis: Universal assistant is the killer app for smart glasses
“I feel like the universal assistant is the killer app for smart glasses, and I think that's what's going to make it work, apart from the fact that it's all, the tech, the hardware technology has also moved on, and Improved a lot. Is this, I think, I feel like …”
Demis Hassabis May 21, 2025 ▶ 21:57 DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
May 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Roy: Apple aims to release smart glasses by late 2026
“Apple, they're aiming to release new smart glasses end of next year.”
Ranjan Roy May 27, 2025 ▶ 25:22 OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
Jun 30, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Voice on wearable devices will be AI's killer app
“I think it's the killer app for sure. Especially when you combine it with other scents, like if you have it in on your glasses or AirPods or something like that.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 40:47 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Oct 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2035
Siegler: Smart glasses will not replace smartphones within 5 to 10 years
“It also doesn't sound like the type of thing that's, you know, people are going to leave their smartphones behind anytime in the next five to 10 years.”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 48:08 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: No future hardware device will ever match iPhone scale
“Nothing's ever going to be the scale again of what the iPhone achieved. And instead it's going to be all of these devices, a bunch of different devices, including glasses, including your smartphone and maybe you know, potentially including a chat. Pin walk aro…”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 42:44 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz: Apple targets smart glasses launch by end of 2026
“Apple is going to release its smart glasses targeted at the end of next year.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 19:03 AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
Jan 20, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Amon: Qualcomm customer in India is building QR-payment smart glasses
“We have a customer of us in India that is doing smart glasses. They integrated with the digital payment system, so now you can look at a QR code and say, pay this, and it will pay.”
Cristiano Amon Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 12:09 Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
Jan 20, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Amon: Consumers will adopt smart glasses and jewelry over bulky helmets
“I don't think we, you and I are going to be wearing like a big helmet. I think we can wear glasses. We can wear jewelry. We, so humans kind of decide what they're going to wear”
Cristiano Amon Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 6:22 Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
Jun 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Himel: Context-aware wearables will intelligently filter notifications based on conversation state
“The potential of the wearables is that if they have context of are you, whether or not I'm talking at the moment, or what am I saying, or who am I talking to, they should be able to really intelligently filter out whether it's the right moment to deliver somet…”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 31:07 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Jun 11, 2026 neutral
Insight
Himel: Users will stop wearing smart glasses if bystanders feel uncomfortable
“The fundamental talent of these devices, if I'm wearing them and you're uncomfortable with me wearing them, I'm probably gonna stop wearing them.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 47:09 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Jun 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Himel: Facial recognition is a top-requested feature for Meta smart glasses
“It is one of the most frequently requested features from people.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 46:05 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Jun 11, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Himel: Meta has not launched facial recognition on smart glasses
“We don't have a feature called that or that does that feature that's launched in the glasses.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 46:00 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Jun 11, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Himel: Visual scene recognition is a top AI use case on Meta glasses
“It's one of the most frequent AI use cases that we see on our glasses, just what is it that I'm looking at? Oh, it's this building, it's this landmark, it's this type of plant, don't eat that mushroom.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 44:21 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Jul 8, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bosworth: Future smart glasses will generate custom apps on the fly
“In the future, there's no reason that couldn't just be you wearing the glasses in real time, telling the glasses what app you want right now, and having it on the fly build that app for you.”
Andrew Bosworth Jul 8, 2026 ▶ 27:32 Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
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