{"id":210568,"date":"2026-09-01T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/210568\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:22:12","slug":"sam-altman-says-he-finds-smart-glasses-very-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/210568\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Says He Finds Smart Glasses ‘Very Uncomfortable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> doesn’t have to worry about Sam Altman coming for his glasses.<\/p>\n

“I find it very uncomfortable talking to people with a camera and a light,” the OpenAI CEO told<\/a> tech journalist Alex Heath during an interview for Heath’s “Sources Podcast,” which was published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Altman’s feelings are becoming quite clear. When reporters asked him on the sidelines of last year’s Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference if the sunglasses he was sporting were smart glasses, he was quick to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely not,” he said. “I don’t like smart glasses.”<\/p>\n

Meta, which has its own competing frontier AI models, is one of the biggest players in the smart glasses space and partners with Ray-Ban to make the devices. EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Ban, said it sold more than 7 million pairs of AI glasses last year.<\/p>\n

Not everyone is enjoying looking through, or rather into, the glasses.<\/p>\n

Meta has recently mounted a PR blitz<\/a> after some venues announced plans to ban patrons from wearing smart eyewear.<\/p>\n

Instagram has also pledged to crack down on users<\/a> who use smart glasses to secretly film harassing content, often in the form of prank or pick-up line reaction videos. Business Insider reporter Katie Notopoulos has found the social network still has work to do in this area.<\/p>\n

The segment remains big business for Meta<\/a>. While the tech giant doesn’t report how much it makes on glasses alone, it has repeatedly said in earnings statements that higher AI-glasses sales are offsetting slower sales of its Quest headsets.<\/p>\n

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In July, Meta reported that Reality Labs, which includes its consumer hardware sales, generated $431 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2026, up $61 million year-over-year.<\/p>\n

As for OpenAI, Heath tried to get Altman to spill a few more details about the ChatGPT maker’s highly anticipated AI-enabled devices that it is developing alongside famed iPhone designer Jony Ive.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s something that belongs on a table,” Altman said, “there’s something that belongs in your pocket, and there’s something that belongs on your body, and it’ll take us some time to launch all of those things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have to worry about Sam Altman coming for his glasses. “I find it very uncomfortable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[150],"tags":[94237,58677,37297,94235,7957,35435,994,9230,1023,94236,75389,63149,581,94238,63785],"class_list":["post-210568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sam-altman","tag-big-business","tag-camera","tag-device","tag-heath","tag-last-year","tag-light","tag-meta","tag-openai-ceo","tag-people","tag-pick-up-line-reaction-video","tag-prank","tag-ray-ban","tag-sam-altman","tag-smart-eyewear","tag-smart-glass"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117198123812010987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}