Smartglasses Ready to Replace Smartphones?

Last week, we held our first webinar on smartglasses, featuring Thibault Cabana, Product Director for Smartglasses at DXOMARK, together with Flora Tang from Counterpoint Research and Sahil Bansal from Qualcomm Technologies.

The session highlighted several key takeaways:

• AI is accelerating the smartglasses market: The category is moving from a niche product toward mainstream adoption, with AI-powered experiences emerging as a major growth driver.

• The market remains highly regionalized: While Meta currently leads globally, different regions are developing distinct competitive ecosystems, leaving significant room for new players and innovation.

• AR + AI glasses are the next frontier: The industry is moving beyond basic information and voice interaction toward more immersive, real-life assistance and social use cases, with the combination of augmented reality and AI opening up new possibilities for smartglasses.

• Image quality is becoming a critical differentiator: As cameras become central to the smartglasses experience, imaging performance increasingly determines not only photo and video quality, but also the effectiveness of AI-powered experiences. While outdoor photography is progressing rapidly, HDR, low-light performance, video quality, and stabilization remain key challenges making objective benchmarking increasingly important to unlocking the full potential of AI-powered smartglasses.

The webinar offered a forward-looking perspective on how AI, imaging, and new hardware innovations are shaping the future of smartglasses and whether these devices could eventually become a new everyday computing platform.

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