The Assignment with Audie Cornish
Jul 10, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Meta’s trying hard to sell people on its AI glasses, but will partnering with Ray-Ban and celebrities like Kylie Jenner let them shed the pervasive take that they’re creepy and cringe? Plus, why…
Audie CornishHost
Ari ShapiroHostCaraFroyo.
it wanted to be ice cream and didn't make it there.
Okay, the question is, is meta glasses going to be the next great tech failure of the 21st century after Mark Zuckerberg has invested, what, $70 billion into making it a thing? Is it something we're all going to be wearing or is it just a creepy way for perverts to be even more lecherous than they were without these glasses?
Glass.
Okay.
It is considered one of the tech flops of all times.
Because you might remember people were like, oh, these glasses look
Froyo.
it wanted to be ice cream and didn't make it there.
Okay, the question is, is meta glasses going to be the next great tech failure of the 21st century after Mark Zuckerberg has invested, what, $70 billion into making it a thing? Is it something we're all going to be wearing or is it just a creepy way for perverts to be even more lecherous than they were without these glasses?
Glass.
Okay.
It is considered one of the tech flops of all times.
Because you might remember people were like, oh, these glasses look
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