Facebook and Ray-tires have teased their own smart glasses, which they will officially announce on September 9 given a description, it seems like a social media company aims to make devices such as Snapchat itself.

There is little information about specifications, let alone what they will call. The teaser page on the ray-tire website only has a vague image that looks above, date, and registration field for ‘notification of your release.’

There are also some quite suggestive recordings distributed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Facebook VR / Ar Andrew Bosworth, when the threshold is recorded. Both post video format square (on Facebook and Twitter, respectively) from the recording that seems to be the height of the head, without the text description for the context saving one glasses smiling at each post.

We don’t need to wait more about the Facebook X Ray-tire project, which seems to be its own brand swing in the social media sharing glasses that we last saw in 2019 with snapchat glasses 3. But this is far away. From the first we heard about Facebook’s smart glasses.

Analysis: Smart Facebook glasses, about time

We first saw a patent for Facebook glasses (not an official name or rumored, but we had to call them something) in June 2020, which showed various methods that can be used potential smart glasses to feel depth and range, which can be useful for ordinary photos or portraits and augmented reality tools (AR).

Like any patents, this is just a collection of different sensor settings, not a complete list of each component that will make it on the final product. Needless to say, finding a patent usually means we are on vacation for several years because it sees it reaches the market in the ready production model.

Or at least, it usually happens, but Bosworth promises January that we will see the land of Facebook smart glasses sometimes in 2021, and they will be much simpler than the specifications of ‘Aria Project’ which is still under development. During the latest Facebook revenue call at the end of July, CEO Mark Zuckerberg openly revealed that smart glasses will be the next company hardware product.

“Looking forward here, the release of the next product will be the launch of our first smart glasses from Ray-tires in partnership with Essilorluxottica,” Zuckerberg said in a call at that time. “Glasses have their iconic form factor, and they let you do some pretty neat things.”

Zuckerberg did not determine what would happen, but he had noted before that they would not have a default look – they would be closer to Snapchat glasses rather than strong AR headsets like Microsoft Hololens. Which might mean fewer hardware, maybe bring them in line with the echo amazon frame – but we will wait to launch September 9 to make sure.