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From holograms to devices that put your body into the game, these early experiments made me feel like I was stepping into the future. They also sparked a lasting curiosity about how technology could change the way we play and connect with the world around us.
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Meta announced its first pair of AI glasses with a display recently at Connect 2025. I just left my LensCrafters appointment, where the Meta Ray-Ban display is open for anyone to try, and wanted to share my first impressions.
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Wearable technology augments human capability. While much of the conversation focuses on fashion, tech specs, and our eventual post-smartphone reality, the real breakthrough in wearables is accessibility.
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Smartglasses are expected to eventually replace our smartphones to offer us a heads-up and hands-free way to engage with digital information. Ironically, these digitally-native devices require something surprisingly old-fashioned to succeed: physical retail.
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As more AV services roll out to even more cities, the big question is how they’ll win riders beyond early adopters. From my time using them, four advantages stand out.
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AI glasses will lead the next wave of consumer devices, offering voice-first assistants that work with your phone. Displays are too early as battery, comfort, and context issues still stand in the way, and consumers are not yet ready.
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Snap’s fifth-generation Spectacles ’24 give developers a powerful AR platform with waveguide displays, dual Snapdragon chips, spatial audio, and advanced sensors, enabling immersive, hands-free experiences built around embodied interaction, AI-driven assistance, and real-world play.
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Surveys show demand for robots to handle cleaning, laundry, and cooking, but caution over cost, trust, and caregiving remains, even as experts predict 40% of household work could be automated within a decade.
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Across a decade of prototypes, provocations, and pranks, it is clear that when it comes to AR glasses, people want more say in what reaches their eyes. Whether it’s burning ads with a smartphone or blurring logos with a headset, we crave more control over our experience of reality.
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Before Oakley HSTN, there was Airwave, a pair of connected ski goggles powered by Recon Instruments and built for the slopes.
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From walking the floor to tuning into keynotes and side conversations, I noticed six consistent themes that clearly show where XR stands today and where it’s headed.
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Shortly after making an official announcement of OpenAI's acquisition of Jony Ive’s hardware company, io, for $6.5 billion, news was leaked that OpenAI was working on a family of devices. While there wasn’t much information on this new series of hardware