00:00The Gentle Monster design they showed off I think looks kind of ugly.
00:03Was that the rounded one?
00:04The rounded one.
00:05Oh, I quite liked those.
00:06But that's why I think that that's actually a success because I think glasses obviously
00:11are a useful thing, but they're also, you pick out a design that you like and so it's
00:16a sense of your own identity and so having more variety in designs I think is what you
00:20really need because, you know, not everyone wants the sort of Wayfarer style glasses.
00:26Now, the Warby Parker signs didn't look very Rayman Wayfarer-esque, I guess because that's
00:30sort of the standard shape.
00:31I mean, the three of us wearing glasses at the moment all had the same shape, so it proves
00:37that it's popular.
00:37And but I think, you know, brands like Gentle Monster coming in and even like the Oakley
00:41glasses from Meta that again have that very weird and distinctive shapes are fantastic
00:46from that perspective.
00:48And I think from the technological side, so far they didn't really say anything that isn't,
00:53I mean, it's basically the Meta glasses.
00:55There was nothing particularly new and unique to these.
00:58It's exciting to see them doing it, I mean, Gemini has some advantages over Meta AI, which
01:03I think is what they're hoping to leverage.
01:05And it was interesting that we're not going to see much of it right now because obviously
01:09all of this stuff, even Meta's are very dependent on an app on your phone or your phone in general,
01:15but very much Samsung's thing being this is an accessory for your smartphone, like a smartwatch,
01:22whereas Meta's long term goal has seemingly been this will replace your smartphone.
01:27And so it's interesting to see that difference and I wonder how that will materialise.
01:31I think we've talked about previously having your phone for like on device AI would be really
01:36helpful for privacy, whereas Meta obviously might want to use its cloud, which then you have
01:41privacy concerns because once data is in the cloud, it's not 100% secure anymore.
01:46So that might materialise in some way, but it's cool that they're coming.
01:51But again, the frustration, perhaps because there was no time to talk about it, is we've
01:55still got the promise of coming soon.
01:57Yeah.
01:57I mean, they keep saying 2026, so, you know, we're almost halfway through the year, so they've
02:02got only six months or so left to launch it, but it'd be nice if we had a release date.
02:06I think they said the fall, didn't they?
02:07They said, yeah.
02:07The fall, but yeah, okay.
02:09That's still, you know, it'd be nice to have a release date, maybe an idea of pricing,
02:12especially because Meta is ahead with things like having a display.
02:16There is no talk yet of glasses with a display.
02:19And the longer Google and its partners wait to do that kind of thing, the more far behind
02:25they feel.
02:26I don't know.
02:27I'm kind of want to see what Google's doing, but it's hard to judge what it's going to be
02:31like until we've actually got it in people's hands in real life.
02:34The question we're asking in some ways is like, is Google about to miss the boat?
02:38But like this boat is nowhere near sailing.
02:41This boat is still under construction.
02:43Exactly.
02:43You know, it's like Apple not having any glasses proposition yet.
02:47Maybe we'll see something this year, maybe not, but like there is no chance of missing
02:54this right now because we are nowhere near ready for these to go mainstream, not just
03:00in terms of what they offer, but in terms of like acceptance.
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