After several false starts, smart glasses are starting to gain traction among consumers and businesses with the help of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI), enabling the devices to offer genuinely useful applications and interact more intuitively with users.
Big tech companies Meta and Google are expected to be major players in the smart glasses space, with the two companies set to compete head-to-head as they each try to convince consumers of their wares.
There are still obstacles to mass adoption, however, and these include the eventual necessity of giving third-party developers access to the discreet cameras on smart glasses, which is something that no major company has yet been willing to do.
Nevertheless, advances in AI and increasingly slicker designs for glasses from Meta and others are helping to drive their adoption.