Meta wants to be able to ship its own smart glasses by 2025, the company told employees.
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Meta expects to be able to deliver a pair of third-generation smart glasses in 2025, equipped with a camera and augmented reality technology.
Although Meta has not officially confirmed that it is working on this product, a new report cites a presentation of the company’s augmented reality and virtual reality roadmap as having unveiled plans for 2025 and beyond. of the.
AccordingThe Verge, Alex Himel, the company’s vice president of AR, told employees that a number of devices will launch through 2027, with the first launch coming as early as this year with the company’s second-generation smart glasses. Company. But then she looks beyond, to 2025.
In 2025, Mr. Himel said the third generation of smart glasses would have a screen that he called a “viewfinder” for viewing incoming text messages, scanning QR codes and translating text into a another language in real time. The glasses will be equipped with a “neural interface” wristband that will allow the wearer to control the glasses through hand movements, such as sliding their fingers on an imaginary D-pad. Eventually, he said, the tape will allow the wearer to use a virtual keyboard and type the same words per minute that cell phones allow.”
This virtual keyboard looks like the air typing we recently heard Apple is also working on to launch the expected AR/VR headset this year.
The same report says that while Meta recently canceled plans to launch a smartwatch, the idea isn’t completely dead. Meta intends to launch a smartwatch alongside the 2025 glasses.
“We don’t want people to have to choose between a wrist-mounted input device and the smartwatch features they’ve come to love,” Himel told The Verge. Number one, this device will do input: input to control your glasses, input to control functionality on your wrist, and input to control the world around you.”
Of course, it’s important to remember that Meta is far from actually launching these things and we know it’s good at canceling projects before they ship. With 2025 still a long way off, we can expect there are still plenty of hurdles before anyone wears Ray-Ban-like Meta glasses anywhere other than Mark Zuckerberg’s head.
