2025 Will Be Smart Glasses All the Way Down

Smart glasses are presented as the most practical near-term wearable, while full augmented reality glasses remain hard to build. Ray-Ban Meta is described as the leading model, offering cameras, audio, Meta AI voice features and no built-in display, while Google's Android XR platform plans display-equipped glasses. Leo Gebbie of CCS Insights says AR "has kind of gone backwards a bit this year," and Anshel Sag of Moor Insights and Strategy notes that the successful AR and smart glasses companies were all acquired, so little came to market.