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We’re hopping in today with a topic that’s a little more opinion based and maybe something I touched on earlier in the week but I would like to do a little bit deeper of a dive on what is going on with the fight for eyewear right now.

And where does this mean we’re headed in society.

Off to the races, here we go!

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GOGGLES

I’m sure you saw this week the video that has been circulating where Mark Zuckerberg (Zuck for short) obliterated the Apple Vision Pro. If you haven’t, take 3.5 minutes and watch it real quick for me.

I bring this up because there’s a race currently in the VR (virtual reality) for goggles. A massive set of goggles that go on your face that they’re expecting you to at minimum where around the house, maybe playing video games, or even working in. But at most, they’re expecting you to walk around the city with these alien like readers making you look like you’re something out of a movie

• Apple’s Vision Pro

• Meta’s Quest 3 VR Headset

GLASSES

There’s a whole separate demographic of companies in headwear being developed in the ai space that’s straying away from goggles.

• Frame - glasses pulling API’s from current software providers to give an experience through ai

• Envision - a set of glasses directly improving those that are blind or have low vision as it will scan text or environments surrounding the individual and describe it out loud

• Lucyd - a set of sunglasses that, if you’ve downloaded the mobile app, can utilize ChatGPT through Siri on the glasses

• Rokid - a set of glasses combing VR and Ai for a great streaming and video game experience

• Meta’s Raybans - These have the ability to live stream and even ask Meta AI a question to receive information back

  • Example of the glasses in the tweet below:

Contacts

• Sony - filed a patent to capture video and images at the blink of an eye

• Samsung - filed patents for ai tech smart contact lenses

• Google - filed patents through Alphabet’s company specifically for health purposes trying to measure glucose level through tears for diabetes patients

• Mojo’s Vision - not ai eyewear yet but definitely an honorable mention for already having the smallest LED Screen appear while using the contacts. I assume big players will want to take a look at pontetially purchasing this development to speed up production

NO LENS

There’s going to come a time where the microchips we can get installed into our brain will either a) fix our eyesight problems to where we don’t need a prescription and/or b) allow for us to use the ai we already have available to preview things in our view of frame.

• Neuralink - The crown jewel in this group

• Synchron - Less invasive than Neuralink

• CTRL-labs (acquired by Meta) - Read more here on technology they’re working on

Where are we headed?

VR headsets and ai glasses are 2 different products. I’m aware.

But I have a hard time believing that when glasses or even contacts can accomplish what the Vision Pro or Quest can do, people will pay for the goggles. I believe that will be a natural progression: ridding of the goggles.

I said this on Sunday, but I believe that because if people valued goggles over sunglasses, they’d go buy a pair of Oakley ski goggles and walk down the street with them in the city.

Now moving down to contacts vs glasses, I think this is a tale as old as time. These won’t riddle one away from the other but rather work in tandem. Your prescription for the glasses will also be the same for the contacts.

One thing to note for the contacts is hoping they’re soft lenses. You might say “Zander, duh - who wears hard lenses???” Correct, but they’ll need to be a protective layer over the lens that protects the chip or technology in the contacts.

Moving away from contacts or glasses to implants given from brain chip companies like Nueralink. As long as humanity isn’t forced to do this, this option really takes off when they give the patient the option for a detachable.

Meaning they can unplug from the internet when they get home with their kids or go on vacation.

All in all, my opinion would believe that less is more. The less the product that combines ai with eyewear is in the way, the more we’ll be interested in integrating ai into our vision to optimize our lives.

That’s your week from us here at ai FNP. I hope you liked the content we provided. From our news on Sunday, Generative Ai on Monday, How the Music industry is being impacted by ai, A mid Week report, and now the fight for headwear.

If there’s anything you want to read or hear about, let me know and I’ll do my best to fit in the schedule for next week. All you have to do is respond back to this email.

See you guys on Sunday,

Zander

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