Marketplace All-in-One The year in AI wearables
Dec 25, 2025
Will Gottsegen, a Staff writer at The Atlantic, shares his hands-on experience with Meta's AI smart glasses. He dives into the promise of AI wearables, highlighting the shift from traditional devices. Gottsegen discusses the impressive features of the glasses, like gesture control, but also their limitations, such as cloud dependence. The conversation touches on how these innovations could enhance accessibility and transform human-computer interactions, while also addressing privacy concerns that keep AI wearables from mainstream adoption.
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A Third Device Beyond Phone And Laptop
- AI wearables aim to become a third device beyond phones and laptops that gives contextual, always-on assistance.
- They promise more natural interactions by embedding large language models into everyday physical interfaces.
Hands-On With Meta’s AI Glasses
- Will Gottsegen tried Meta's new AI glasses in a pop-up and described the gesture-controlled display and wristband interface.
- He found the experience promising but slowed by real-world limits like Wi‑Fi dependence and cloud latency.
Cloud Limits The 'Always-On' Promise
- AI wearables deliver contextual intelligence by seeing and hearing your surroundings, but most heavy AI work happens in the cloud.
- That cloud dependence creates latency and connectivity issues that hamper fluid, real-time interactions.