Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears AI-powered smart glasses during the company's Connect conference on September 17 in Menlo Park, California. Nic Coury/AP Menlo Park, Calif. —

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage on Wednesday to unveil the company’s next generation of artificial intelligence-powered wearable devices.

They represent the company’s next step toward a future where we all spend less time looking down at a phone screen, but rather interact with Meta’s AI technology — as well as our messages, photos and the rest of our online lives — via glasses not totally unlike the regular prescription lenses or sunglasses we might wear anyway.

The new slate of wearables is also a part of the company’s bid to make its AI technology a bigger part of users’ everyday lives as it compete

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