2020 taught us to stop worrying and love cameras, if only for Zoom trivia nights. And with true consumer AR devices not yet on the horizon, we can expect a bigger focus on audio AR and personal assistants. The glasses will instead heavily focus on audio, and be more like a mixture of Snapchat's Spectacles and Amazon's Echo Frames. Facebook is set to release its first smart glasses in partnership with Ray-Ban in 2021, but don't expect the wearable to offer fully immersive AR. The first crop of AR glasses will focus on audio.Still-somewhat-stealthy startup Syng is about to release its $1,500 Cell Alpha, and Sonos is overdue to announce a successor to its Play:3, but we may also see other companies try to fill that void. With the big guys focusing on devices priced $100 or less, there's an opening in the market for bigger, louder and more expensive speakers.
And remember Samsung's Galaxy Home? Apparently, neither does Samsung. Apple introduced the HomePod Mini in October to restart its flailing audio business. Google discontinued its Home Max smart speaker in December. Big corporations are bad at making big speakers.
TGI 2021, amirite? If this were any other year, right now I'd be busy getting ready for CES in Las Vegas, jotting down booth numbers and constantly checking the monorail map to make sure I could actually make it to all my meetings in time.Īlas, CES will be virtual this time around, and all my briefings will happen on Zoom.
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