Meta’s Smart Headware Push

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meta is readying smartglasses with a display, but also, a look at their theoretical and prototype roadmap for the future of headware hardware generally. Is all the money in the world not actually going to get Zuck what he wants in AI? And is the acquihire in all but name trend of recent months breaking Silicon Valley’s fundamental business model? Links: Apple’s Vision Pro Is Suffering From a Lack of Immersive Video (Bloomberg) Meta Tiramisu "Hyperrealistic VR" Hands-On: A Stunning Window Into Another World (UploadVR) Meta Boba 3 Prototype Hands-On: Ultra-Wide Field Of View Without Compromise (UploadVR) Startup down rounds are at a 10 year high, according to PitchBook data (Fortune) Meta Plans Fourth Restructuring of AI Efforts in Six Months (The Information) Zuckerberg Squandered His AI Talent. Now He’s Spending Billions To Replace It. (Forbes) Big Tech Is Eating Itself in Talent War (WSJ) Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi (ArsTechnica) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Monday, August 18th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. Today. Meta is
0:10.0	readying smart glasses with a display for as soon as next month. Is all the money in the world not
0:15.9	actually going to get Zuck what he wants in AI and is the aquaharan all but name trend of recent months
0:21.8	breaking Silicon Valley's fundamental business model. Here's what you miss today in the world
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1:39.8	next big hardware story in tech for the next decade or so, which, you know, at this point, it's maybe
1:45.7	kept an obvious, Brian, but also, I've been talking about how meta is seemingly leading this
1:52.3	new horse race. Well, a bunch of news on that front today, first off. Mark German says that
1:58.6	meta may debut what they are calling Hypernova, smart glasses,
2:02.8	but finally with a display, for around $800 later this year.
2:08.1	Quote, as I've reported, Meta is reading its first smart glasses with a display, dubbed
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