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Himel: AI wearables will fail without existing analog adoption habits
“If you don't see a lot of people doing that already with analog versions, I think it's unlikely that you're gonna see an AI version take off.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 9:43 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
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Himel: Wearables will eventually become the best form factor for AI
“And we believe that wearables will be the best form factor eventually for the AI. Because they're always with you, they can see what you see, they can hear what you hear, and there's something you can talk to throughout the day when you need it, and they can b…”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 19:04 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
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Himel: Wearables will become ubiquitous without completely replacing smartphones
“At some point, we think that they'll be ubiquitously used by people providing a ton of value. That doesn't mean phones are gonna go away, but I think you'll see wearables be used for some of the things that you do on phones today. And a bunch of things that yo…”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 43:35 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
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
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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
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Himel: AI glasses will guide physical tasks and summarize conversations live
“And you're going to see more use cases develop as the AI is getting better insanely rapidly. And so you'll be able to do things like, instead of saying, what am I looking at? You'll be able to say, help me do this thing that I would normally have to look up a …”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 2:49 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Himel: Meta glasses retention is highest with clear or transition lenses
“When we measure engagement and retention on our glasses, so how often do you use them, and then after After some period of time, are you still using them actively? Those numbers are highest when we have clear lenses or transition lenses, which means that we're…”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 21:45 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
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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
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Himel: Meta pivoted 200 employees to AI smart glasses in one weekend
“That was a Saturday, by Monday, we had pivoted 200 people on the team to be building AI for these glasses, and the rest is history.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 55:49 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Himel: Audio and phone calls are top Meta smart glasses use cases
“Well, our top use case on the glasses is audio. It's talking on the phone, or it's listening to music.”
Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 15:50 Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
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