The Short Version
Meta revealed a working AR glasses prototype in 2026 while holding roughly 75 percent of the smart-glasses market.
Meta holds three-quarters of the smart-glasses market and just showed working AR hardware that puts a digital display in front of your eyes. That kind of lead is hard to overcome. But the company also logs every keystroke employees make and gives them no way to opt out, which tells you something about how it treats data when no one is watching. Regulators deciding how to handle the next major computing platform, glasses that see what you see, will be watching that track record closely.