Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is ‘hard to imagine’

Mark Zuckerberg spoke about his ambitions for Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses business during Meta’s Fourth quarter 2025 earnings Call on Wednesday.

After transferring its investment in Reality Labs Away from the metaverseMeta is doubling its production of wearable AI devices, in addition to its own production Artificial intelligence models.

“Billions of people wear glasses or contact lenses to correct vision,” Zuckerberg said. “I think we’re in a similar moment to when smartphones arrived, and obviously it was only a matter of time until all these foldable phones became smartphones.” “It’s hard to imagine a world in a few years where most of the glasses people wear are not AI glasses.”

He added that sales of Meta glasses have tripled over the past year, and he believes they are “one of the fastest growing consumer electronics devices in history.”

Take Zuckerberg’s view with a grain of salt. After all, he also thought that we would go to work and have a good time with our friends in the metaphysical world – Legs are optional -And this It didn’t work.

But based on how the biggest players in tech are allocating their money and efforts, AI glasses appear poised for a big moment, even if it’s not on a smartphone scale.

Google is expected to do so He releases line of smart glasses this year, after A A deal worth $150 million With Warby Parker. Apple is also reportedly planning to unveil this device Smart glasses In the next year or two, move some staff to this project instead of working on the lighter Vision Pro, According to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Snap announced on Tuesday that it will rotate its augmented reality glasses, Specificationsinto a new subsidiary to allow “greater operational focus and alignment.”

Even OpenAI, a company that has not yet ventured into the hardware space, is seeking to develop wearable AI devices, although it seems more focused on something like… AI pin or earbudsInstead of glasses. Apple is also rumored to be working on an AirTag-sized AI device — though hopefully those efforts will be better than those… Human artificial intelligence pin.

For now, Meta is Lead the way Smart glasses are being pushed into the market, with several different models already on sale. This includes Oakley smart glasses designed to be worn while exercising, which are Promising use case We have personally seen these devices so far.