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Meta’s newest artificial-intelligence powered smart glasses include a tiny display and can be controlled by a neural wristband that lets you control it with “barely perceptible movements,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday.Zuckerberg continues to evangelize the glasses as the next step in human-computer interactions — beyond keyboards, touch screens or a mouse.The glasses, called Meta Ray-Ban Display, will be available Sept. 30 and cost $799.Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester, said Meta’s latest reveal is “reminiscent of when the Apple Watch first debuted as an alternative to the smartphone.”“But what these glasses do is bring more utility to consumers in a single device. Unlike VR headsets, glasses are an everyday, non-cumbersome form factor,” the analyst added. “However, the onus is on Meta to convince the vast majority of people who don’t own AI glasses that the benefits outweigh the cost. The good news? There’s a lot of runway to earn market share.”While the company has not disclosed sales figures of the glasses, it said they have been more popular than expected.“For more than a decade, Zuckerberg’s long-term vision with Oculus and the Metaverse has been that glasses and headsets will blur the lines between physical and digital worlds,” Forrester analyst Thomas Husson said. “After many false starts, the momentum to move beyond an early adopter niche is now.”Meta teased a prototype for Orion, which Zuckerberg called “the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen,” last year — but these holographic augmented reality glasses are still years away from being on the market.Like other tech companies, Meta has been making massive investments in AI development and hiring top talent at eye-popping compensation levels.In July, Zuckerberg posted a note detailing his views on “personal superintelligence” that he believes will “help humanity accelerate our pace of progress.” While he said that developing superintelligence is now “in sight,” he did not detail how this will be achieved or exactly what “superintelligence” means. The abstract idea of “superintelligence” is what rival companies call artificial general intelligence, or AGI.Zuckerberg has said he believes AI glasses are going to be “the main way we integrate superintelligence.”
