Google simply introduced that they’ll be releasing a brand new pair of sensible glasses with AR expertise. That brings up an fascinating query. What is going to occur to smartphones when sensible glasses turn into extra standard?
Ever since Google uploaded the “Project Glass: One Day…” demonstration video a decade in the past, the world has been intrigued by the concept of wearable computer systems. We’ve seen a number of makes an attempt at it, however nothing has actually caught on…but.
However which will all change within the subsequent few years.
New Curiosity in Good Glasses
Again in 2022, whereas everybody was nonetheless attempting to deal with the pandemic, Google quietly made an enormous acquisition. The tech big purchased North, one of the vital promising sensible glasses startups on the market, in June of that yr.
Regardless that the precise worth wasn’t confirmed by Google, the Globe and Mail reported that it was over $180 million. Then, final yr, Google employed a number of high-profile AR software program and {hardware} builders. The rumors began swirling that Google was engaged on one thing huge.
And people rumors have been lastly confirmed when the corporate introduced that they might be testing new smart glasses with augmented actuality expertise.
Entrepreneurs Assume Good Glasses Will Change Smartphones
Now, Google’s actions have sparked plenty of hypothesis about the way forward for sensible glasses. And a few tech entrepreneurs assume that sensible glasses will ultimately exchange smartphones.
Mark Zuckerberg, as an example, believes that sensible glasses will take over as the first approach individuals entry the web by the tip of the last decade. As a matter of reality, the Meta founder is so assured on this prediction that he’s already started investing in AR and VR startups.
He’s not the one one who thinks sensible glasses will exchange smartphones. Alex Kipman, the inventor of Microsoft’s HoloLens, additionally believes that sensible glasses are the long run.
His perception is that smartphones are principally already lifeless, nonetheless, it’s simply that “people just don’t know it yet.”
6G is Coming and Smartphone Makers Know It
Apparently sufficient, even a number of the world’s largest smartphone makers are beginning to come round to this mind-set.
As an example, on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos final yr, Nokia’s CEO Pekka Lundmark mentioned that in lower than 10 years, we’ll have 6G expertise at our disposal. However there’s a twist (one that you could see coming a mile away).
He believes that as an alternative of utilizing our smartphones to connect with 6G networks, we’ll be utilizing sensible glasses. So it looks like the writing is on the wall. Smartphones is probably not round for for much longer.
After all, there’s one huge query that also must be answered: what’s going to individuals truly use sensible glasses for?
Some individuals imagine that sensible glasses would be the key to unlocking the Metaverse. In standard science fiction, we will typically see characters accessing digital actuality worlds by superior glasses or contact lenses.
So it’s not too far-fetched to assume that sensible glasses might ultimately lead us right into a Metaverse of our personal. In spite of everything, if they will exchange smartphones, there’s no cause why they couldn’t additionally exchange consoles and PCs as properly.
Solely time will inform what the long run holds for sensible glasses.