Smartglasses, an arguably niche but rapidly advancing category of wearable devices that allows users to interact with digital content while keeping their eyes on the real world, will largely replace smartphones as the world’s primary computing platform by the end of the decade, according to the latest word from Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta. Zuckerberg, who is partially known for having dropped out of Harvard after creating a successful platform called Facebook, shared the prediction last week following the introduction of Orion, Meta’s first true augmented reality glasses. A look at Orion, including Zuckerberg’s thoughts, can be found below.
🚨 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts smart glasses will replace phones by 2030
— Haider. (@slow_developer) September 29, 2024
" Smart glasses are going to become the next major computing platform.
They will gradually replace phones by 2030, much like mobile devices surpassed computers without fully replacing them " pic.twitter.com/81qrSndgCP
What I think is going to happen with glasses is that we’re going to get to this point, probably sometime in the 2030s, where you have your phone with you, but it’s going to stay in your pocket more, because you’re going to be doing more and more things on your glasses than maybe today you’d do on your phone. The glasses will be your main computing platform, and that will be kind of your default, go-to thing.