Meta Admits Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Are Used to Train AI, Meta’s Achilles' Heel, Smart Glasses Used for Doxing
Following Monday's discussion regarding Vision Pro apps, we will stay in smart glasses / headsets / spatial computing land for today's update. A news story out of Harvard involving Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, face search engines, and large language models caught my attention over the weekend. Before we get to that, some disappointing news on the Meta smart glasses front as it pertains to data collection.
Let’s jump right in.
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Meta 4Q23 Earnings, Estimating Meta Quest 3 Sales, Ray-Ban Meta and AI
There are several Big Tech earnings reports for CY4Q23 worth going over. For those of you who recently became Above Avalon members, my approach to covering Big Tech earnings is twofold:
Assess how Apple competitors are doing from a financial/business perspective. This will involve looking at revenue growth metrics, cash flow generation, etc. Given major differences in business models, the metrics will need to be put into proper prospective.
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Today’s update will be dedicated to Meta, a company that is turning into one of Apple’s most direct competitors.
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