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1 week agoThe man who coined Metaverse now says Meta's glasses are creepy
The belief that handheld devices will dominate in the future has shifted, favoring them over face-worn technology.
When a stranger smiles at you, you smile back. That is why, when Sir Ian McKellen ( The Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Amadeus) walked on the stage in front of me, looked me straight in the eye, and smiled at me, I smiled back. It was the polite thing to do. It was also completely unnecessary, because McKellen was not actually on the stage in front of me. He smiled at me through a pair of special glasses.
Magic Leap plans to bring its over 15 years of experience in the AR space to the booming AI smart glasses market through a continued partnership with Google XR. Also: I wore the Meta Ray-Bans' successor for a month, and my buying verdict is two-fold On Wednesday, Magic Leap published a blog post detailing its plan for its next-generation AR glasses. In its collaboration with Google, the company said that it is focused on developing AR glasses prototypes that "balance visual quality, comfort, and manufacturability."