{"id":10678,"date":"2026-07-05T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10678"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:29:36","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-takes-business-calls-on-a-jet-ski-wearing-his-800-meta-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10678","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg takes business calls on a jet ski wearing his $800 Meta glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Zuckerberg firmly believes wearables are the future. He\u2019s so obsessed with them, in fact, he wears his Meta glasses pretty much everywhere.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve taken business calls on a jet ski,\u201d he told Complex <\/em>in an interview published earlier this week. \u201cThe other person could not tell that I was on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Meta CEO credited the microphone placement in the nose pad of Meta\u2019s glasses for the crystal-clear audio. He also claimed the audio clarity is so good \u201cyou could literally be in a wind tunnel and it would sound completely clear to the person on the other side.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This makes working from anywhere that much easier: \u201cYou don\u2019t necessarily want to tell the other person that you\u2019re on a jet ski,\u201d Zuckerberg added.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s seventh-richest man is the primary evangelist for smart glasses. Meta sells a full lineup of AI-enabled eyewear built with Ray-Ban and Oakley parent EssilorLuxottica, ranging from the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) at $379 to the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the company\u2019s first consumer-ready glasses with a built-in display. Zuckerberg unveiled the Ray-Ban Display glasses at Meta\u2019s Connect conference in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Display model comes bundled with a Neural Band, a wristband that reads electrical signals in the forearm to let wearers navigate the heads-up display with subtle finger gestures. These glasses also have a display on the right side that can show texts, alerts, apps, photos, and even give live translations.<\/p>\n

Why Zuckerberg is so sure about glasses<\/h2>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s confidence in the wearables market stems from a simple bet: that nearly 2 billion people who already wear glasses for vision correction represent a ready-made market, he said. Zuckerberg also likens it to the shift from flip phones to smartphones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt pretty clear that in five years or whatever, all of the flip phones were going to be smartphones, and that\u2019s basically how I feel about glasses today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also argues glasses allow people to stay \u201cpresent with the people around you\u201d in a way phones don\u2019t, while giving an AI assistant the ability to \u201csee what you see, hear what you hear, talk to you throughout the day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg said Meta has been working on the underlying technology since 2014, starting with virtual and augmented reality, and that the company is already planning its 2028 glasses lineup. The smart glasses effort is also part of what he calls building \u201cpersonal super intelligence.\u201d It\u2019s a vision he contrasts with that of rival AI labs, arguing that a future with \u201cone big AI\u201d everyone uses would be \u201ca bad future, no matter how good the AI is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s optimism has been consistent, having told analysts last year people without AI glasses could one day be at a \u201cpretty significant cognitive disadvantage.\u201d On Meta\u2019s January earnings call, he said sales of the glasses tripled within the last year and called them \u201csome of the fastest growing consumer electronics in history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Zuckerberg\u2019s obsession with smart glasses isn\u2019t cheap. Meta\u2019s Reality Labs division, which houses the glasses business, posted a $19.2 billion loss in 2025, and the company expects 2026 capital expenditures to hit as much as $145 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe formula for our company has always been to build experiences that can get to billions of people and focus on monetizing them once you get to scale,\u201d Zuckerberg argued earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The glasses have occasionally created awkward moments for Meta\u2019s founder\u2014including in February, when a judge threatened to hold members of Zuckerberg\u2019s entourage in contempt of court for wearing the recording-capable glasses into a no-recording courtroom. But if the jet ski story is any indication, Zuckerberg isn\u2019t bothered by what other people think of his product.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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