Meta’s Ray-bans Smart Glasses Sold More Than 1 Million Units Last Year

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed income figures for nan company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses for nan first time, telling labour that complete 1 cardinal units were sold successful 2024. In remarks during an all-hands gathering seen by The Verge, Zuckerberg posed a mobility to portion astir whether income would spell from 1 cardinal to arsenic overmuch arsenic 5 cardinal units successful 2025.

“I deliberation 1 of nan questions for america is, are we going to spell from 1 cardinal this twelvemonth to 2 million? Are we going to spell from 1 cardinal to 5 million?” Zuckerberg said. Since nan Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses first launched successful 2023, they personification gradually added caller features, specified arsenic multimodal AI to process what you’re seeing, hearing, and reading, connected pinch unrecorded AI and translations.

“We fundamentally invented nan people and our competitors haven’t really shown up yet,” Zuckerberg said during nan meeting. “I deliberation we’ll astir apt commencement seeing immoderate of that perchance a mini later this year, perchance adjacent year, but we conscionable personification this wide unfastened conception correct now to tally and fundamentally coming arsenic galore group arsenic imaginable to Meta AI glasses and we should return that opportunity.”

Meta declined to remark for this story.

Meta is expected to return an moreover bigger dive into wearables successful 2025, arsenic nan institution is readying to merchandise a caller brace of smart glasses pinch a heads-up display, codenamed Hypernova. Meanwhile, a caller study from Bloomberg suggests that Meta is moving pinch Oakley to create a caller brace of smart glasses later this year.