O CEO do Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
Smartphones will become irrelevant in the coming years, and will gradually begin to be replaced by smart glasses. The prediction is from Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook.
It was during the Meta Connect 2024 event that Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the “the next big computing platform”.
The executive director of Meta, the company that owns Facebook, predicts that there will be a “gradual” transition that could begin as early as 2030similar to what happened with the emergence of smartphones that replaced computers in several functions, “without completely replacing them”.
“In the near future, he will still have his cell phone in his pocket, but he will use his glasses to carry out most tasks”, he highlights in an interview with content creator Cleo Abram during the event, as cited by the online technology newspaper.
Zuckerberg highlighted, in particular, the success of Ray-Ban Meta glasses developed by your company, highlighting that, in the coming years, smart glasses will change the way we interact with the digital world.
“Smart glasses should be the next big technology platform after smartphones”, he reinforced, concluding that they will allow for more “social and natural” digital experiences, promoting an even more connected and more functional society, with fewer barriers.
Other technology companies such as Google and Apple are also investing in their own development projects.
In 2022, Meta presented the Ray-Ban Storiessmart glasses with a five-megapixel camera, two speakers and three microphones.
This year, Zuckerberg’s company put the Ray-Ban Meta on sale, which includes a better camera and microphones, as well as more memory.
