If Apple introduces AR glasses, it has the potential to, once again, emerge as a key influencer that propels it into widespread adoption in the future.

With so much going on in AI, investors seem to be looking past its Metaverse segment. That may seem odd, as the company once known as Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021. With the company's Reality Labs segment continuing to lose billions of dollars every quarter, investors may have written off the effort.

Somewhere Tim Cook just threw the Apple Vision Pro against a wall. All that time. All that energy. All that hype. And in one day, Mark Zuckerberg just made Apple's $3,500 headset look obsolete with the Meta Orion prototype AR glasses. Not that the Vision Pro was selling like hotcakes, but you get my drift.

Meta won't confirm whether it'll train its AI with photos you take with the Ray-Ban smart glasses, which can be a big problem.

One major long-running rumor is that Apple plans to incorporate the hardware and AI software for a wearable not into glasses, but into its next-generation AirPods Pro. That might