When Meta demoed its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, it touted the ability to livestream, record video, and play music. Then, at its recent Meta Connect event, it unveiled one more thing. You can speak to it a conversational tone and the AI will fetch you answers to your questions.
Hands-on with the next-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses
27.09.2023 - 19:00 / venturebeat.com / Mark Zuckerberg / Meta Ai
Meta unveiled the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses today at its Meta Connect event in its continuing quest to blend optical fashion with technology.
These smart glasses shouldn’t be mistaken for augmented reality glasses, as they have limited functionality. The lenses are ordinary, and all you can do with them is record video, take snapshots, answer phone calls and play music. You can also livestream with them. I tried out the glasses at a Meta press briefing, and they worked well.
The idea is to enable you to capture life’s best moments with an upgraded 12-megapixel camera and five-mic system. You can livestream your view of life’s best moments to Instagram and Facebook. You can stay connected with hands-free calls and messages and listen to your favorite tracks through built-in
speakers. And you can do all that while keeping your smartphone in your pocket.
This will also come with AI built into it. That part is a surprise, as the smart glasses will let you verbally ask the AI questions that it can answer with text answers on the glasses. It is coming out on October 17.
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“You can get hands-free AI wherever you go,” said Mark Zuckerberg on stage at Meta Connect.
Next year, the glasses will be multimodal with an update, where it will tell you the name of a building if you ask Meta AI verbally what it is.
“I think the AI piece of this will be just as important as any of the augmented reality features,” he said.
Meta’s previous smart glasses were the Ray-Ban Stories, built as a collaboration with EssilorLuxottica, the owner of the Ray-Ban brand. Announced in August 2020, the glasses debuted in September 2021.
The device had small red light indicating that the users was recording what they were seeing, and that led to some controversy about privacy invasion. In the new model, there is a brighter white light that you can see from the corner of your eye on the frame. That tells you that you are recording, and people you are talking to should be able to see that too, though it isn’t as obvious as a bright red light.
Rivals at the time included Snap’s smart glasses, as well as the more advanced AR glasses from companies such as Nreal (now Xreal).
But Meta’s glasses were merely smart, able to record video and play music. But they did not have augmented reality lenses, where you can look through the lenses and see a combination of physical reality and 3D-animated overlays.
As noted, these new glasses still don’t have AR lenses, and so Meta is careful not to call them AR glasses.
There will be a wide variety of Ray-Ban
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