Mark Zuckerberg Says A Future Without Smart Glasses Is ‘Hard To Imagine’
AI glasses will dominate wearables within years, says Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Here's why tech giants are betting big on this category.
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Mark Zuckerberg Says A Future Without Smart Glasses Is ‘Hard To Imagine’
AI Glasses: Zuckerberg's Bold Vision for Everyday Wearables Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared that AI glasses will soon become as ubiquitous as smartphones, calling a future without them "hard to imagine." During Meta's Q4 2025 earnings call, he revealed sales tripled year-over-year and positioned AI wearables as the company's strategic priority after scaling back metaverse investments. With Google, Apple, and Snap accelerating their own efforts, the race to put artificial intelligence directly in our field of view has officially begun. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images Why AI Glasses Represent a Computing Inflection Point Zuckerberg drew a direct parallel between today's AI glasses and early smartphones replacing flip phones. "Billions of people already wear glasses or contacts for vision correction," he noted. "We're at a moment similar to when smartphones arrived—it was clearly only a matter of time until all those flip phon…
