Mark Zuckerberg has begun his quest to kill the smartphone

Yahoo Finance | TechCrunch ^ | Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Amanda Silberling

[SunkenCiv]

If you can't resist the urge to check your phone over and over, even if you're out with friends, Meta has a solution: check your glasses instead...

Meta's Reality Labs division burns cash at an alarming rate, which has concerned investors over the years...

Meta has had its fair share of flops, like the entire promise of its social metaverse...

But with the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta has created a remarkable piece of technology, unlike any other consumer-facing product on the market -- we have yet to test it ourselves, so we can't quite say just how groundbreaking this really is, but it looks promising.

Like Meta's existing smart glasses, which have sold millions of pairs, the new model has cameras, speakers, microphones, and an on-board AI assistant. The display on the glasses, which is offset so as not to obstruct one's sightline, can display Meta apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, as well as directions and live translations.

What most sets the Meta Ray-Ban Display apart is the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to pick up on signals sent between your brain and your hand when performing a gesture...

While some live AI demos at the keynote failed -- Zuckerberg blamed the Wi-Fi -- we at least got to see the wristband in action, which is more novel. Zuckerberg quickly wrote out text messages, then sent them on his Ray-Bans.

"I'm up to about 30 words a minute on this," Zuckerberg said onstage at the company's Menlo Park headquarters. "You can get pretty fast."

[KrisKrinkle]

Will they eliminate the need for my present spectacles and give me 20/20 vision?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Good point, I wonder if these available as prescription glasses? Probably not. Somewhere there’s a group of twerps who bump the text size on grocery items into smaller and smaller print, and they laugh and laugh...

[rlmorel]

Funny, I have never seen the “Aliens Guy” in his show, but I laugh openly every time I see that meme posted on FR, which...is a lot! (even though for a long time I had no idea what he was all about, but loved that hair!)

On the glasses-I think it is a bad idea. Damn, people are always walking around like zombies with their phone in their hand now, if those glasses take off, people are going to be walking around staring into space.

If you see a guy staring off into space with a bulge in his pants, you can probably guess he isn’t looking at videos that tell him how to change his oil!

That said-I have always wondered why cars didn’t have a heads-up-display like jet fighters do, the critical stuff being projected on the inside of the car’s windscreen where they could see it.

Using night vision, they could enhance the road and obstacles for safety in fusion imaging, and could also highlight roads to be taken when GPS is used.

Heck, by then, cars will be self-driving, and I’ll probably be dead!

[Beowulf9]

😆

[SunkenCiv]

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• The Singularity: What It Is and Why It Matters More than Anything Else [12/13/2020]
• Elon Musk demonstrates brain-computer tech Neuralink in live pigs [08/29/2020]
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[Dr. Sivana]

If your brain can control the interface, the interface can control your brain.

That depends on the design of the interface. A basic joystick sends output but receives no input.

[NorthMountain]

When I retire, I’m going to take my “smartphone” out to the range, put a round through it, and not replace it with anything.

[xp38]

I refuse to look like a leftist lesbian moron who looks a bit like Zuck anyways.

[SaxxonWoods]

There’s one big reason this will have limited popularity. The cell phone is every dork’s face-saving device. They can stare at their phone in public, punch buttons and look like they might be making a $million deal while waiting for their Starbucks order. With glasses they’ll just look like dorks, alone and unimportant.

[GingisK]

...and the other one kind of reminds me...

...of the male leading role of X-Files?

[GingisK]

If your brain can control the interface, the interface can control your brain.

Not necessarily true.

What they can do with 5G is disgusting enough

The dark side of 5G is 100% Internet myth.

[SunkenCiv]

Neuralink... good idea for another pile of sorted topic links... 😊

[SunkenCiv]

I never realized how nice it is to have until a former coworker and off-duty hang got a contract phone (T-Mobile) and just gave me his old prepaid phone (it’s still on prepaid, will be until its time to upgrade/replace the phone). My old cars used to break down, I’d brandish my phone, here comes the tow truck. The downside, when I was still working, was that I could be at the beach, someone would call in sick, and they just knew that I’d be available. Between sickies and people quitting or getting fired, it was brutal. 🤳

[SunkenCiv]

As if they don’t now. 😆

[StAnDeliver]

Google Glasshole RIP.

Apple Vision RIP.

META Quest wearing new lipstick RIP LOFL.

[Myrddin]

That said-I have always wondered why cars didn’t have a heads-up-display like jet fighters do, the critical stuff being projected on the inside of the car’s windscreen where they could see it.

Here's a clue: when I worked at Wingcast, the engineers in charge of one of the boards in the cars I was using for my work did an analysis. The removed 10 "unnecessary" resistors. Two reasons: current drain and 10 resistors times 250,000 cars adds up to real money. The pencils are that sharp when it comes down to mass scale engineering economics.

[rlmorel]

LOL, of course. Now, I am someone who has railed against all the useless technology inserted into today’s vehicles...

This is something I have thought about for years, but in that time my views on technology has changed but all those years of thinking about it had not caught up, and here I am...wondering why we don’t have more!

Well, that said, I still want my flying car!

[Myrddin]

The cellphone and "working from home" boils down to two things: 1. You are always "reachable" and 2. Working from home means you're always at the office. Add the magic of having your project team members spread from Australia to Oregon to Maryland to Paris, France. There is no respect even for time zones. I'm thankful to finally be retired and separated from the 24x7 madness of the connected world.

[CaptainK]

Seriously what woman who is moderately attractive is going to be walking around with her face covered by those large unattractive frames?