Mark Zuckerberg invested $3 billion in Oculus VR, and $19 billion on WhatsApp. Meta glasses can be taken out and used to capture up to 3 minutes of video and photos. You can use your VR headset while they charge in the case to share videos with WhatsApp. This worked for me. Zuckerberg will have to invest tens of billions more dollars to secure this future. Now, Zuckerberg is faced with spending tens of billions of dollars more to secure this future.
Digital Nomads Without Phones Or Laptops
Long-term, we should expect services like music, calls and media transfer to hand off seamlessly from a pair of comfortable glasses to a powerful headset, and vice versa.
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In this case, I successfully downloaded videos and photos from my Ray-Ban Meta glasses to the Meta View app running on the Quest 3 headset. Meta hasn’t built any file management tools yet, so this isn’t really useful, but the headset does offer a much bigger screen on which to view captured media than any phone.
Proving this pathway works starts to make Zuckerberg’s vision of the future a little clearer. Meta View is best run on Androids or iPhones. Meta Ray-Ban Glasses can be managed with Meta View. Phones are not mandatory hardware in this case. It is ridiculous to run an app designed for a smartphone on a headset in order to download pictures from glasses. Headset for Private Focus
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For those moments when you’re not in headset, glasses can capture a video of what you see up to three minutes at a time. This is where real-world travel planning gets really interesting.
Mark Zuckerberg is sailing across the ocean in his sunglasses and the Ray-Ban Meta account on Threads is
that you can swipe between points of view at a concert with multiple captures.
I’ve filmed a cat walking its humans through Central Park. Henry, a dog I met in Central Park, yelled at me when I left. You can see his video to enjoy how good a little boy he was. I still miss him. The drummers were in the subway and there was a band playing on the Brooklyn train. The glasses were worn at my wedding, and I captured a video of hundreds of people using their phones to record videos in Madison Square Garden. I used the
in California and encountered my first robot with them as I made myself its trolley problem. The next time you get on a bus, it’s the best opportunity to transfer the videos and pictures to your headset. If there’s Wi-Fi available at a cafe, hotel or on the bus itself, it’s entirely possible to send your views to friends and family on WhatsApp or Messenger directly from your Meta eyewear.
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Phones are removed from this thought experiment for a couple reasons. First, many travelers do not have the money or desire to purchase data subscriptions in different countries. It is difficult to imagine a 2024 nomad without the ability to stay connected to the Internet. It is truly amazing to have a WhatsApp conversation with your glasses on and a phone retransmitting the view to another caller. Meta’s greatest opportunity is for Facebook, born in the perpetually online era of this century. Meta is the best opportunity for Facebook. It was born during the era when the internet has been a constant presence. Meta has the opportunity to make all that go away. That road trip I described without iPhone or Android would free you from hundreds of interruptions, which flow into your phone over that trip. Meta has an opportunity to make all that go away and that road trip I just described without iPhone or Android would free you from potentially hundreds of interruptions you don’t necessarily need that would flow into your phone over that trip.
In essence, forgoing the cellular connection in your handheld slab of glass effectively unsubscribes you from the 20th century’s core method of communication – phones – while letting you start fresh in a new era of wearables.
The year is 2024, yes, but by the end of the decade, people should be able travel the world with a cellular-capable wristband that connects to glasses with a headset in their bag to pull out for private media viewing and socialization online anywhere, and with anyone.showing off the ideaMeta built toward this for more than a decade and, while it was an uphill battle across Gear VR, Oculus Go and Rift, their work is bearing fruit in the Quest 3 and Ray-Bans. For the entrenched tech giants, they’ll have to reimagine everything they do from the perspective of someone who is more than ready to develop a new relationship with technology.
For Meta, glasses and headsets allow Zuckerberg to forge that new relationship with billions of people.