Mark Zuckerberg has begun his quest to kill the smartphone (techcrunch.com)

At Meta Connect 2025 Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Meta Ray-Ban Display — a new generation of smart glasses designed to surface apps (Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook), navigation, live translation and an on‑board AI assistant in a way that aims to preserve “presence” while siphoning compute and user attention away from smartphones. The product packs cameras, speakers, microphones and an offset heads‑up display, and represents Reality Labs’ most polished consumer hardware after years of heavy losses and iterative prototypes. The biggest technical headline is the Meta Neural Band: a wristband that uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to read muscle signals between the brain and hand so users can “write” messages silently by miming finger motions. Zuckerberg claimed about 30 words per minute in his demo (Reality Labs’ participants averaged ~21 wpm), compared with ~36 wpm on touchscreen typing — a promising new input modality if it scales. Live demos stumbled, and important questions remain about real‑world ergonomics, privacy of biosignals, latency, and whether people will prefer glasses over sleek phones. Still, the package signals a major industry bet: tangible progress on non‑voice, wearable input could reshape human–computer interaction and challenge Apple/Google’s smartphone dominance if consumer adoption and technical robustness follow.