Meta glasses are among the worst tech products because they depend on phone pairing, lack independent connectivity, and offer no compelling use case for constant wear
Adcock harshly criticizes Meta's smart glasses as among the worst products he's bought, citing poor phone pairing, dependent connectivity, and no compelling reason to wear them all day. He argues glasses won't be a primary AI device form factor. ✦ AI generated
Brett Adcock · My First Million · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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“What do you think those devices look like?”
the metagasses are probably one of the worst products I've ever bought. They're just horrible. They're horrible. Like I I can't even like figure out how to use it. It doesn't have its own network. It piggybacks on the iPhone network. It means your app needs to be open on your phone. The pairing's long. Like it doesn't work well. Like I can't think of any reason why I would need this thing strapped to my head for 14 hours a day. Like it's just like the wrong device. It's it's not like the end state is BCI in the brain and we're going to have like AI language devices for the next 10 years before that. And that like that's that's the path and it's not glasses. Glasses I think I don't even know if glasses will make our top like 10 list of devices.
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13:15going to be an AI native first phone, right? You're not going to try to change the form factor. >> No, I'm not saying that at all. You're going to want to like really radically rethink everything. Uh the like the first version hardware we have now in our lab is like unlike anything I've ever seen in my whole life. >> Okay. >> What lives outside of here on the edge
13:31are like like glasses and pendants and wearables and things. They're not they're not the main show. In fact, like the metagasses are probably one of the worst products I've ever bought. They're just horrible. They're horrible. Like I I can't even like figure out how to use it. It doesn't have its own network. It piggybacks on the iPhone network. It means your app needs to be open on your
13:48phone. The pairing's long. Like it doesn't work well. Like I can't think of any reason why I would need this thing strapped to my head for 14 hours a day. Like it's just like the wrong device. It's it's not like the end state is BCI in the brain and we're going to have like AI language devices for the next 10 years before that. And that like that's
14:05that's the path and it's not glasses. Glasses I think I don't even know if glasses will make our top like 10 list of devices. When you're when you and your team are like brainstorming, do you have a framework on how you can think outside of pre-existing norms? Because when you're talking about like I I literally can't imagine at all what you're talking about >> let's let's get down to like the
14:26substrate level here like first order what what has changed what's changed is we have like a new type of computer which is like I think of AI as a new type of computer new type of automation that's here that automation can do a few things that are like like when we're designing this we want to design around like key principles that could be like 10x better if it's like one or two times
14:44better your phone or computer you're not going to use it it's like literally 10x better what are things now that a deep learning brings that are like 10x better. There's a few of them like one is AI can like basically now like think and use computers and systems for you just like a human can. It can like talk to you. It can like see has like visual