Jimmy Mengel,
Director of Customer Experience
May 27, 2025
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes"
– Marcel Proust
That’s a wonderfully deep quote, but I’m going to go for a wild pivot from Proust to something more captivating.
Remember RoboCop?
Creative Commons
Yeah, that guy.
He was the half-man, half-robot police detective that laid waste to the criminals of a post-apocalyptic Detroit in the 1987 blockbuster film of the same name. It’s a bloody awful mess, but RoboCop managed to clean up the streets using futuristic technology.
Technology that is now available to us all today. And it’s going to be worth a fortune for investors.
Aside from his bulletproof armor, RoboCop’s most important piece of crime-fighting technology was the Augmented Reality helmet he wore. It allowed him to scan the streets for criminals, use infrared waves to detect their whereabouts and dig into their police files all in real time.
Truly groundbreaking technology in 1987.
While I doubt that most folks will use our modern tech to kill street thugs, I guarantee that millions will be using the new, slick version to do all sorts of useful and fanciful things. We’ve come to a point where you can live your life without a RoboCop helmet but a pair of slick glasses that can accomplish everything the future promises us and more.
Imagine walking down a New York City street and having every restaurant pop up in your own eyeballs – with menus and reviews – without getting run over by a cab because you’re looking down at your cell phone.
Imagine traveling to Italy and having your glasses translate “Cacio e pepe” for you without anybody noticing the fact that you can’t speak Italian.
Imagine instructing your glasses to take you to Kenya. In a matter of seconds you are staring lions, elephants and zebras right in the face, all from the comfort of your face.
It’s a wild world, and it’s happening right in front of our eyes…
Googly Eyes
There was a major merger in the world of smart glasses last week. Google/ Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced a partnership with Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY) to combine the world of tech with the world of style.
Smooth move, eagle eyes…
It’s not a secret that one of the reasons you don’t see many people wearing such mind-blowing glasses is because they looked ridiculous. Like, maybe something out of a campy 80’s movie?
Google Glass circa 2012 (Via Creative Commons)
Things have changed.
The Google/ Warby Parker partnership is perfect from a consumer and investor’s standpoint. Make smart (nerdy) glasses look cool – and affordable – then people will buy them.
The market agreed. Warby Parker’s shares surged more than 15% after the announcement at their annual developer conference. Google agreed to pump $150 million into the partnership. $75 million up front and the second half after the hip glasses company hits some benchmarks.
That’s not a ton of cash for a company like Google. But it’s a huge cash and PR boon to a company like Warby Parker.
Future Vision
Producers and investors are still very early in the smart glasses industry. However, as we all know, these things move quicker than anyone can predict.
GrandView Research projected that smart glasses will be a $48.26 billion industry by 2030.
Courtesy of GrandView Research
My crystal eyeball predicts that it will be far more than that.
Warby Parker’s glasses will be built on Google’s Android XR and will include Google’s Gemini AI assistant. That’s who you’ll be speaking to when you have any questions, wherever you go.
I’d say that you could confidently invest in Warby Parker or Google (Alphabet) with some comfort. I just wouldn’t expect 15% to 20% returns any given day. Both are likely safe plays during the rush to AI, AR, IR and any other A’s, I’s or R’s that come up.
I will tell you this…
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You can find out all you need for this new frontier in this presentation.
But you have to act fast. As RoboCop would say “You have 20 seconds to comply.”
Godspeed,
Jimmy Mengel
Director of Customer Experience, Daily Profit Cycle