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Meta glasses: future or flop?
ALSO : Sora 2 cameo prompt injection vulnerability
Geoffrey NICHIL
October 03, 2025
News of the day
1. Meta's new smart glasses are technologically advanced but face challenges. Weighing only 24g more than regular glasses, they offer features like translation and navigation, but lack app variety compared to smartphones. Meta aims for leadership in this new tech. → Read more
2. OpenAI's Sora 2 is vulnerable to prompt injection via its cameo feature. Users can set text prompts for their cameos that override video generation prompts, leading to unexpected outputs. → Read more
3. Developers are integrating Apple's local AI models into iOS 26 apps, enhancing features like story creation, financial insights, and note-taking without inference costs. This trend boosts app quality of life and privacy. → Read more
4. Anthropic introduces 'context engineering' to enhance AI agent performance by optimizing attention and coherence, moving beyond traditional prompt engineering for complex tasks. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
Ray-Ban Meta: technological feat or Mark Z’s last big bet? Let’s remember that so far he’s missed the metaverse, the phone, and the watch, and he can’t afford to miss smart glasses anymore… or maybe he can, actually 🙂
What really changes this year is the product shift. The Ray-Ban Display add a discreet screen in the right eye, a full-fledged system with apps, and a neural wristband to control the interface with gestures. You can read your messages, frame photos live, take a video call, and display subtitles and real-time translations. All of this was announced at $799, launching first in the United States, with an expansion to Europe slated for 2026. In parallel, in 2025 Meta broadened access to its assistant on the glasses in Europe, with translation and a visual assistant. If you’re looking for the first credible iteration of a computer worn on your face, here it is.
Market signals confirm the story isn’t just playing out onstage anymore. The first units are selling very quickly in the U.S., but a rocky demo at Meta Connect reminded everyone that the path to everyday use is full of friction. Meanwhile, Apple is accelerating on its own glasses with a timeline that could slip to 2027. This isn’t just a gadget; it’s Meta’s most serious strategic bet to make heads-up, hands-free usage stick. The challenge is no longer the technical feat; it’s ergonomics, trust, and proving a clear benefit beyond technophiles. And yes, if Instagram is scrolling in my pupil, I promise I’ll look up when someone talks to me 🤣
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