Mark Zuckerberg takes business calls on a jet ski wearing his $800 Meta glasses—and insists ‘the other person could not tell’
Zuckerberg is convinced smart glasses will replace the smartphone—and he's spending billions to prove it, even as Reality Labs posts a $19.2 billion loss.
Mark Zuckerberg firmly believes wearables are the future. He’s so obsessed with them, in fact, he wears his Meta glasses pretty much everywhere. “I’ve taken business calls on a jet ski,” he told Complex in an interview published earlier this week.
“The other person could not tell that I was on it.” The Meta CEO credited the microphone placement in the nose pad of Meta’s glasses for the crystal-clear audio. He also claimed the audio clarity is so good “you could literally be in a wind tunnel and it would sound completely clear to the person on the other side.”
This makes working from anywhere that much easier: “You don’t necessarily want to tell the other person that you’re on a jet ski,” Zuckerberg added. The world’s seventh-richest man is the primary evangelist for smart glasses. Meta sells a full lineup of AI-enabled eyewear built with Ray-Ban and Oakley parent EssilorLuxottica, ranging from the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) at $379 to the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the company’s first consumer-ready glasses with a built-in display.
Zuckerberg unveiled the Ray-Ban Display glasses at Meta’s Connect conference in September. The Display model comes bundled with a Neural Band, a wristband that reads electrical signals in the forearm to let wearers navigate the heads-up display with subtle finger gestures. These glasses also have a display on the right side that can show texts, alerts, apps, photos, and even give live translations.
Why Zuckerberg is so sure about glasses Zuckerberg’s confidence in the wearables market stems from a simple bet: that nearly 2 billion people who already wear glasses for vision correction represent a ready-made market, he said. Zuckerberg also likens it to the shift from flip phones to smartphones. “It felt pretty clear that in five years or whatever, all of the flip phones were going to be smartphones, and that’s basically how I feel about glasses today,” he said.
He also argues glasses allow people to stay “present with the people around y
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