#smartglasses

#smartglasses

Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gives us a glimpse of what's around the corner in tech: creepy humanoid robots, robovacs that climb stairs, AI baked into everything. Some of these products will never come to fruition. Some will arrive months later. And some — the rarities we picked out below — are available to order right now. I had a chance to try each one in person on the show floor in Las Vegas.

The first model I tried featured Lumus' optimized Z-30 waveguides, which not only offer a much wider 30-degree FOV, they are also 30 percent lighter and 40 percent thinner than previous generations. On top of that, Lumus says they are also more power efficient with the waveguides capable of hitting more than 8,000 nits per watt. This is a big deal because smartglasses are currently quite limited by the size of batteries they can use,

Zuckerberg: What do you think? Maybe let's make, I don't know, what should we make? Maybe like a steak sauce, maybe Korean-inspired type thing? You know, just to show what the LiveAI is like. EMPLOYEE: Yeah, let's try it. It's not something I've made before, so I could definitely use the help. Hey, Meta, start live AI. [four-second pause] LiveAI: Starting LiveAI. I love the setup you have here with soy sauce and other ingredients. How can I help?

When considering whether I wanted the glasses, all the apparent benefits involved the dual cameras. I never expected my favorite feature to be the audio.