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Meta Missed Out on Smartphones. Can Smart Glasses Make Up for It?


At Meta’s Connect developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off Orion, a futuristic pair of smart glasses that the company hopes will lead the next foundational shift in personal computing.

The Orion glasses, like a lot of heads-up displays, look like the fever dream of techno-utopians who have been toiling away in a highly secretive place called “Reality Lab” for the past several years. As part of the on-stage demo, Zuckerberg showed how Orion glasses can be used to project multiple virtual displays in front of someone, respond quickly to messages, video chat with someone, and play games. Meta hasn’t shared total unit sales numbers of its Ray-Ban glasses, but its product partner, EssilorLuxottica, recently said it had sold more pairs in the past few months than in the two years prior.

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