Mark Zuckerberg has got that dawg in him…

After a year packed with headlines that made it very clear Zuck is a confirmed, unapologetic AI addict, Meta Platforms is somehow starting the year with… a win.

The suddenly patriotic, definitely-always-believed-in-free-speech Meta is delaying a global rollout not because the product flopped, regulators freaked out, or Congress sharpened its knives… but because Americans Black-Friday’d Mark’s face computer into extinction.

More specifically, Meta Platforms says it’s pushing back the international launch of its $799 Ray-Ban Display AI glasses after what it politely calls “unprecedented” U.S. demand. Translation: they ran out. Badly. 

The company admitted waitlists are now stretching well into 2026, which is a pretty good problem to have (price increases coming).

(Source: CNBC)

The plan had been to roll the glasses out in the U.K., France, Italy, and Canada early this year. That plan is now on ice while Meta focuses on fulfilling U.S. orders and “reassessing” international availability… a phrase that usually means factories are being yelled at over Zoom.

The glasses debuted last September, personally unveiled by nerd-turned-TikTok-bro Mark Zuckerberg, and they represent Meta’s first genuinely consumer-ready AI wearable. Users can watch videos, respond to messages, get pedestrian navigation, and even read from a built-in teleprompter… which is great news for anyone who’s ever wanted AI-assisted eye contact.

(Source: The News International)

Control doesn’t happen via awkward frame tapping either. That job belongs to the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that has the ability to read hand gestures. Seriously, you can literally write messages by dragging your finger across a table and have them transcribed digitally, which is either the future of human communication or the opening act of several deeply uncomfortable misunderstandings.

Meta showed off even more upgrades at CES this week, including expanded navigation features and improved gesture recognition, signaling that this product is moving faster than most people expected. 

And the money backs it up. Meta’s longtime partner EssilorLuxottica, Ray-Ban’s parent, reported revenue growth last quarter and credited part of it to demand for Meta glasses… a sentence that would have sounded insane just a year or two ago.

To be clear, Meta isn’t alone in chasing your face. Alphabet recently dropped $150 million into a smart-glasses partnership with Warby Parker, while OpenAI is reportedly exploring AI glasses with Apple, which is especially funny given Apple’s current “maybe we’ll license our AI instead” phase.

For now, though, Meta owns the rarest brag in consumer tech: a hardware product people want so badly it caused a supply shortage. Not bad for a company that spent the last few years getting dunked on for cartoon avatars with no legs. Not to mention his AI addiction getting put on blast all of 2025.

At the time of publishing this article, Stocks.News holds positions in Meta, Alphabet, and Apple as mentioned in the article.