India, Aug. 13 -- Belatedly would be an understatement. Meta and Ray-Ban took their own sweet time to launch the smart artificial intelligence (AI) glasses in the country. The competitive landscape at this point is perplexingly barren, and I am quite certain the decision-makers at both these companies wouldn't have imagined it to be such plain sailing-even after a significant passage of time. Nevertheless, the collective of the best-known sunglasses manufacturer and a tech company that is only too keen to invest heavily into refining AI can only really go one way: towards success.

The difficulty in getting AI glasses right-though it may seem easy with a mix of hardware, a camera, voice, and an AI responding to queries-is real. Not to say...