Meta's smart glasses ecosystem is about to undergo its most significant transformation yet. At Meta Connect 2025, the company announced a groundbreaking Wearable Device Access Toolkit that will finally let developers tap into the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses. This is not just another incremental update. It is the foundation for an entirely new category of wearable applications that could redefine how we interact with technology in our daily lives.
For developers, the opening is simple and big. The future of workplace technology involves both smart glasses and smartphones working together, each tuned to different tasks and interaction patterns.
The apps built now with this toolkit will be the scaffolding for richer experiences as hardware levels up. Meta's Orion prototype glasses point to the goal of true AR glasses, and by the time those reach consumers, there could be thousands of apps ready to stretch their capabilities.
Zooming out, the strategic stakes are clear. The AR/VR market revenue is projected to surpass $100 billion in 2025, with much of the growth coming from applications and services, not just devices. Developers who learn smart glasses now are not only shipping today's tools, they are shaping the interaction patterns that will define how we blend digital and physical life.
Meta's decision to open its smart glasses to developers is more than a new app surface. It is the groundwork for ambient computing. The builders who jump in now will influence not just what we use, but how we use it, out in the world and on the move.
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