Smart glasses replacing phones in the metaverse?

Google has just announced that they will release a new pair of smart glasses with AR technology. This brings up an interesting question. What will happen to smartphones when smart glasses become more popular?

Ever since Google uploaded a video demonstrating “Project Glass: One Day…” a decade ago, the world has been intrigued by the concept of wearable computers. We’ve seen a few attempts at this, but nothing has really caught on…yet.

But that could all change in the next few years.

Smart glasses are the new interest

In 2022, while everyone was still trying to deal with the pandemic, Google quietly made a huge acquisition. In June of that year the tech giant bought North, one of the most promising smart glass startups out there.

Although the exact price has not been confirmed by Google, the Globe and Mail reported that it is more than $180 million. Then, last year, Google hired several high-profile AR software and hardware developers. Rumors swirled that Google was working on something big.

And these rumors were finally confirmed when the company announced that they will be testing new smart glasses with augmented reality technology.

Entrepreneurs believe smart glasses will replace smartphones

Now, Google’s move has sparked much speculation about the future of smart glasses. And some tech entrepreneurs think smart glasses will eventually replace smartphones.

For example, Mark Zuckerberg believes that by the end of the decade people will adopt smart glasses as their primary means of accessing the Internet. In fact, the Meta founder is so confident in this prediction that he has already started investing in AR and VR startups.

He’s not the only one who thinks smart glasses will replace smartphones. Alex Kipman, the inventor of Microsoft’s HoloLens, also believes that smart glasses are the future.

His belief is that smartphones are basically already dead, but it’s just that “people don’t know it yet.”

6G is coming and smartphone makers know it

Interestingly, even some of the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturers are starting to come around to this line of thinking.

For example, at the World Economic Forum in Davos last year, Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark said that in less than 10 years, we will have 6G technology at our fingertips. But there’s a twist (that you can see coming a mile away).

He believes that instead of using our smartphones to connect to 6G networks, we will use smart glasses. So it seems the writing is on the wall. Smartphones may not last long.

Of course, there’s one big question that still needs answering: What will people actually use smart glasses for?

Some people believe that smart glasses will be the key to unlocking the metaverse. In popular science fiction, we often see characters accessing virtual reality worlds through advanced glasses or contact lenses.

So it’s not too far-fetched to think that smart glasses could eventually lead to our own metaverse. After all, if they can replace smartphones, there’s no reason why they can’t also replace consoles and PCs.

Only time will tell what the future holds for smart glasses.

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