Mark Zuckerburg, the founder of Facebook , has predicted that this is the end of the smartphone era. He says those little screens we take everywhere and spend hours scrolling on , will no longer be the dominant tech product, because there’s something new: the Meta Glasses.
These first-of-their-kind AI glasses allow you to make calls, send messages and take photographs, all from the frames on your face . Zuckerburg says ten years of research that went into making these “the next major platform”.
I’m sceptical. Even as someone who’s had a phone since the age of six, and will happily scroll for five hours a day on the weekends, I can’t imagine wearing a device on my face.
And previous attempts at smart glasses have failed pretty spectacularly – remember Google Glasses? First launch