Does Meta have its long-desired hardware platform? Or at least the start of it?

It’s extended the contract with the Ray-Ban parent company for more years of smart glasses collaboration.

Now, according to Bloomberg, Oakley is joining the crew.

Plus…

> Company resumes work on smartwatch and develops AirPods rival > > First real AR glasses, dubbed ‘Artemis,’ are planned for 2027

The question used to be: what will replace the smartphone?

But the path now seems to be to replace the interface and turn the smartphone into a personal, portable server for ambient computing peripherals and AI features.