AI-powered glasses from Google and eyewear retailer Warby Parker will not hit the market until after this year, according to Dave Gilboa, co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. “We believe that glasses are the perfect form factor for AI. Warby Parker’s alliance with Google on AI-powered smart glasses marks a major milestone for the D2C eyewear brand. Gilboa said they are still engaged in early work for the glasses, but he believes that generally AI-powered glasses’ ability to offer real-time contextual information will make it much more useful to consumers. Much like how smartphones unleashed a wave of innovation by enabling connected mobility, Gilboa said smart glasses will do the same for AI. “It can know what you’re looking at and can understand what you’re hearing. As a result, AI can process information in real time,” Gilboa said. “They have context around you as an individual; they know what’s on your calendar. They know everything about you.” “For the first time, people will really want to adopt smart glasses for all-day everyday use because they look good and have so much utility,” Gilboa added. Their smart glasses project benefits from Google’s broad ecosystem that includes Android, Search, Maps and YouTube, as well as its experience in generative AI. “They have such depth of data around their individual users that being able to tap into that with a smart glasses product is what we think is going to be really transformative in a number of ways to the world, but also to our business,” Gilboa said.