Short answer: Sam Nadler says Meta's new glasses appear to cost $200 to $300 while Snap's are about $2,000 and very thick. Ryan Aytay, who owned early Meta Ray-Bans, likes not looking down at his phone but notes privacy concerns.
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From Episode 48: The Code Running Your Plane Was Written Decades Ago. This Startup Proves It Still Works., starting at 18:01.
Sam Nadler [18:01]: Yeah. Let's do it. A lot of news lately. A lot of news in AI.
Jordan Metzner [18:06]: I mean, it's nonstop. I don't know. Where do you wanna go, Sam?
Sam Nadler [18:10]: Well, unfortunately, I didn't choose a very AI themed news. I did choose more of a meta themed news, but I thought it was fun. Meta debuts their new cheaper smart glasses. I don't know if you guys knew this, but about a week ago, Snap unveil Oh,
Ryan Aytay [18:28]: They're they're
Sam Nadler [18:29]: Very thick. They're super thick. And they're also, like, $2,000, I think, while these appear to be, $2.02 200, $300. And then just maybe we can wrap this up into one kinda high level thing. Meta also plans to do a prediction market. Sounds like it will be arcade point based, and that if those points translate to dollars, I don't know. Ryan, for context, one of our best episodes was about building a bot for prediction market. Would love to, a, is Meta have the better glass strategy or Snap? And what do you guys think of this prediction market plan?
Ryan Aytay [19:12]: Well, hey. Look. I'm an optimist generally, but when I think about, I had the early pair of the Meta, like Ray Bans. And I remember I took them to Yosemite, and I kept trying to, like, ask, like, what am I looking at? And this is, like, I think two year roughly two years ago, right when they came out originally. And, for me personally, I've I've always enjoyed the concept of, like, hey. I don't wanna have to be, like, looking down at my phone. I think that's the thing that, glasses like this. It basically gives you a new interface and a new UI to kind of not only look at, what am I seeing, but ask questions and I think get a different perspective. That said, I feel like there's a bit of, there's probably the concern, like privacy concerns that exist out there. Like, am I being watched? Am I being filmed? One of the things I always like at least to tell my kids because I have a 12 year old and a 14 year old is like, you're probably always being watched at this point, and so that's why you need to be very careful about what you do in life. But look, I think the form factor's interesting. I think we're early.
Ryan Aytay [20:11]: The more competition in this space, the better. And I think making these things accessible to other people is great. And, will it be the form factor that, is is vision, a form factor? Probably. In fact, again, I bought them, so I'm I'm an easy test case.
