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As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes

Is it though?

Exactly one year ago, EssilorLuxottica told its investors that the Ray-Ban Meta glasses had sold 2 million units so far, a period spanning from the launch in October 2023 until February 2025.

Now, during its Q4 2025 earnings report, the company announced that it sold 7 million units of Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses in 2025 alone – meaning more than triple that of 2024. This suggests that around 9 million have been sold to date since the launch of Ray-Ban Meta two and a half years ago.

“Explodes” might be a bit of hyperbole, but sales have been increasing, and are projected to continue. This doesn’t mean it will happen of course, and the numbers are in dollars, not in units sold, so inflation is at play here.

For a while I thought something like a life recording would be awesome … Using your own cameras and devices at home and away and leveraging public devices to mesh together a record of everything really. Think of the possibilities, you have an argument and insist you did or did not say something…look it up! If you are accused of something like robbing a bank - no problem, my feed and gps and video evidence says otherwise. And when you are an old coot you can go back and watch the sex you had with whomever whenever isn’t a negative . Then I realized the storage needs and someone would monetize it so only the wealthy could get a full backup and you got tier 32 ( birthdays and blowjobs maybe ) … Now years later I realize without our permission they are doing exactly that, only fuck it all because we can build more storage and the intent has changed. It’s not to sell you a service. In fact it is much worse.