Tech Industry Shifts Focus to Smart Glasses as Meta and Apple Prioritize Development
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Summary
The article discusses the current resurgence of smart glasses in the tech industry, with Meta shifting focus from VR/XR hardware to launching three new smart glasses models, including one with a display. This trend appears to be influencing Apple's strategy, with reports suggesting the company is deprioritizing an affordable Vision Pro to focus on smart glasses development. The piece raises questions about whether this represents a repeat of the failed Google Glass era ('glassholes 2.0') and examines the industry's renewed push into wearable display technology.
Key quotes
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In its place were not one, not two, but three new pairs of smart glasses, one of which has a display—a first for Meta.
That pivot to smart glasses is also apparently dragging Apple in its wake, with reports that the company is deprioritizing an affordable Vision Pro to focus on its own pair (or pairs plural, actually) of specs.
The message is clear: smart glasses...
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