Meta’s Wearables VP Alex Himel Discusses New Display Glasses

Meta Platforms hopes to make money out of its augmented reality glasses through software features, such as subscriptions to its artificial intelligence service, its vice president of wearables Alex Himel said in an interview with The Information’s TITV this week. But Meta doesn’t have near-term plans to try and sell ads on the glasses, Himel said, noting they don’t have a big enough audience to appeal to advertisers yet.

Himel was speaking a day after Meta unveiled its biggest step towards augmented reality, with its Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. The $799 device has a display in one lens showing incoming text messages, phone calls as well as other features such as live translations of what someone is saying to you in a foreign language. Here’s the video of the TITV interview.