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☆ I tried Snap's AR glasses, Spectacles. They're a good start to get Gen Z users interested in smart eyewear.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementSnap's new Spectacles offer AR features like piano lessons and video calls. While the Vision Pro is a heavier corded headset, Meta's smart glasses are more like sunglasses with a camera and an AI assistant. AdvertisementSome features were clunky but impressiveOne of the Spectacles Lenses offered virtual piano lessons. AdvertisementGoogle tried and failed to break open the smart glasses market in the past, but that hasn't stopped CEO Mark Zuckerberg from showing off another pair of smart specs, Orion, at Meta Connect in September. AdvertisementI was impressed by the Spectacles demo, but I'm still waiting for a feature that makes them feel like a must-have.

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☆ Three China stocks that analysts are watching for longer-term opportunities
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

For many, the reaction among investors only reinforced the need to look at longer-term opportunities in individual stocks that haven't changed. About half of Xpeng's 20,000-plus deliveries in each of the past two months have come from its lower-priced Mona M03 car. In the consumer sector, Macquarie's top pick is Yum China , which operates Pizza Hut and KFC in China. Yum China on Nov. 4 reported third-quarter earnings, showing operating profit grew by 15% year-on-year to $371 million. "You have to be very willing to suffer the negative sentiment to invest in China," Ren said.

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☆ Apple is reportedly doing market research into smart glasses after Meta's 'Orion' demo made waves
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple is doing research into the smart glasses market, Bloomberg reported. The report comes amid weak Vision Pro demand and flashy smart glasses demos from competitors. AdvertisementApple is possibly considering entering the smart glasses market even as it reportedly scales back Vision Pro production. The AI-enabled smart glasses have cameras, speakers, and a microphone, and they can be worn and used on the go. If Apple's goal is to rival Meta's unreleased Orion glasses, it has time to work on its product.

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☆ Oprah just favorited Meta's Ray-Ban glasses in the latest sign the product is taking off
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Oprah endorsed Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in her holiday gift list. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's smart glasses continue to see strong demand. AdvertisementMeta's smart glasses are already outperforming expectations, and they just won a powerful endorsement as the holiday season kicks off. Oprah Winfrey listed the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses in "Oprah's Favorite Things 2024," her annual gift guide on her digital platform called Oprah Daily. AdvertisementIt may provide another boost to the wave of success that Meta's smart glasses have already seen.

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☆ The Harvard students who added AI facial recognition to Meta glasses share some of their other big ideas
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The two Harvard students who put facial recognition AI in Meta's Ray-Ban glasses have big ideas. The duo, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, are known for their innovative tech projects. AdvertisementTwo Harvard students spooked the world with their demonstration of facial recognition using Meta Ray-Bans. They also built AI into augmented reality glasses that can fact-check a user's statement during an argument in real time. Ardafiyo and Nguyen have big ideas for AI products in manufacturing, construction, and industrial tech spaces, they told BI.

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☆ Meta's new Ray-Ban glasses are pulling a bait and switch
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Amanda Hoover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now, despite a rocky start three years ago, Meta's smart glasses are doing better than expected. Meta's Ray-Bans have a camera and speaker and are packed with AI. Meta's loftier goal, the Orion glasses , aren't quite there. Yet getting people into the Orion glasses may depend on getting people comfortable with smart glasses generally, and that's where the Ray-Bans could come in. And the Meta Ray-Bans make it even easier to use AI as you move through the world — no hands (and awkward air-pinching ) required.

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☆ Meta is making its popular Ray-Ban smart glasses even more useful with a slew of new features
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta's smart glasses are getting an upgrade. "People love their Ray-Ban Meta glasses so much so that for a little while, we were struggling to keep up with the demand." The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer with polarized lenses costs $329, while the Transitions options are $379, according to Meta's website. The existing models of Ray-Ban Meta glasses let customers capture photos and videos, live stream on Instagram, and accept video calls. Last September, the tech giant announced it was adding Meta AI to its smart glasses for US-based customers, letting them use the virtual assistant AI with the command, "Hey Meta."

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☆ Meta Connect 2024 live updates: Mark Zuckerberg expected to talk about AI and give update on Ray-Ban smart glasses in keynote speech
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Meta Connect 2024 kicks off at 1 p.m. The CEO is expected to talk about AI, Meta's Ray-Bans and Quest, and demo the "Orion" AR glasses prototype. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Meta Connect kicks off on Wednesday afternoon, and the tech industry is anticipating some flashy new hardware.

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☆ Meta Connect 2024 live updates: Mark Zuckerberg expected to talk AI, a new Quest, and give updates on the Ray-Ban smart glasses in keynote speech
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

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☆ Podcast: Samsung bets on the Galaxy Ring and AI as its next big thing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +42 min

Along with its S24 series of smartphones, foldable devices, smartwatches and now the Galaxy Ring, Samsung is hoping to lock users into its world of products held together with its suite of artificial intelligence features, known as Galaxy AI. Arjun KharpalOne of the things Samsung said was look, the ring is one product, but we've got the watch, we've got the smartphone. I think that's the right approach for Samsung, I don't think they have unrealistic expectations for volumes on this. And you'd feel like if there was some sort of Apple ring, it would do pretty good volumes. Do you think Samsung is seriously looking at ways to monetize this via subscriptions or other kinds of service business model?

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☆ Apple has been doing some soul-searching around its next big product
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

When the Vision Pro headset launched in February, the $3,500 price tag and lack of a really great app gave mainstream consumers pause. Since then, Apple has been considering ways to push the headset product line forward and attract new customers, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. AdvertisementThe seemingly lackluster response to the expensive Vision Pro launch has led execs working on the product to do a bit of soul-searching about the way forward for the headset, Bloomberg said. They want to make Vision Pro a more mainstream product, with options at higher and lower prices. Bloomberg said Apple has spent years working on a headset that would cost $1,500 to $2,000, which could be released by the end of 2025.

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Here's a rapid-fire update on all 33 stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. Amazon's recent AI moves have been impressive, specifically its close relationship with fellow Club holding Nvidia and, most recently, its multibillion-dollar venture investment in startup Anthropic. Best Buy : We added the electronics and appliance retailer to the portfolio shortly after the Monthly Meeting concluded. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg is becoming Meta's ultimate influencer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Zuck has been using his platforms to demo Meta's products, including the company's AI glasses. In a video posted late last year, he used Meta's AI Ray-Bans to guide him through braiding his daughter's hair. Zuckerberg posted a video reviewing Apple's new mixed-reality headset, perhaps unsurprisingly deciding Meta's $500 Quest headset was superior. The billionaire has also taken to criticizing Apple's headset on other social media platforms and behind closed doors in private meetings. In a post on Threads last week, Zuckerberg said if Meta's Quest is like the Vision Pro in five years, "we'll have regressed significantly."

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☆ Apple has reportedly discussed ideas including a smart ring and glasses — and putting tiny cameras on AirPods
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The company has discussed making a smart ring, though it's not actively working on the product, Bloomberg reported. It's also exploring whether it should make smart glasses and put tiny cameras onto AirPods that could bring AI benefits, the report said. Apple has issued a number of patents for smart glasses and smart rings in the past dating back at least 10 years. Apple has also had early discussions about creating smart glasses as a possible alternative to AirPods, the report said. A smart ring would also be a competitor for Oura, and newcomer Samsung's upcoming Galaxy smart ring that it plans to release later this year, which is designed to keep track of health metrics.

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☆ Meta says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan is joining board of directors
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Meta said Wednesday that Broadcom CEO president Hock Tan and philanthropist and former Enron executive John Arnold are joining the company's board of directors. Tan has been leading the semiconductor giant since 2006, giving him extensive international experience working in computing infrastructure technology. "As we focus on building AGI, having directors with deep expertise in silicon and energy infrastructure will help us execute our long term vision," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. The technical backgrounds of the incomers contrast with former Meta operating chief Sheryl Sandberg, who recently said she would step down from the company's board. Tan and Arnold join a board that includes former PayPal Executive Vice President Peggy Alford, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, former U.S. deputy secretary of the treasury Robert M. Kimmitt and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu.

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☆ Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses are less ambitious but makes most sense
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMeta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are 'less ambitious' than Apple but make the most sense: Julie BielJulie Biel of Kayne Anderson Rudnick shares her comparison of Apple's Vision Pro and the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses.

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☆ Here's a rapid-fire update on all 32 stocks in our portfolio, including Cramer's fave tech play
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +15 min

Here's a rapid-fire update on all the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. Investors tend to assign a premium to software revenue because it is often recurring and higher margin than hardware. (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ Zuck's GPU flex will cost Meta as much as $18 billion by the end of 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg upped the ante this week by disclosing how many of these graphics processing units Meta will have by the end of 2024. AdvertisementTo that end, Meta will have purchased about 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. And overall the company will own roughly 600,000 of these types of chips, if you include other similar GPUs, Zuckerberg noted. A single Nvidia H100 GPU is estimated to cost about $30,000 although other estimates put the cost as high as $40,000. And similar GPUs from other providers may be cheaper than Nvidia's offerings.

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☆ The race is on for tech's 'golden goose' — the iPhone of the AI era
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Some tech leaders see the gadgets as the iPhone of the AI era, a way to own the hardware we use to interact with AI. A true iPhone successor could be tech's "golden goose," but past attempts have failed. The race is on as generative AI tools like ChatGPT, OpenAI's conversational AI chatbot, take the world by storm. Even though he said AI hardware innovations represent "the golden goose for tech players in the next decade along with software," he doesn't think all of them will be successful. AdvertisementAdvertisementYet, despite AI's impressive capabilities, Haigh said that smartphones may still be easier to use for the average consumer than AI devices, which means that AI personal devices may take awhile to gain public interest.

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