Meta Connect announced new features for the smart glasses, but they're all still very basic.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are the best way to secretly snap the world around you without shuffling for the phone in your pocket. But Meta wants its glasses toas more than just an accessory with solid camera capabilities for documenting the day-to-day. It wants you to consider those glasses as your gateway to AI interaction. Those stylish sunglasses could also be the digital assistant in your ear.
Unfortunately, that still seems like a world away compared to where the Ray-Ban Meta glasses are currently. At Meta Connect, the company announced several new AI-enhanced features for the Ray-Ban glasses. The ones I got to try during a demonstration include features like reminders, which let you ask Meta AI to remind you of things, and the ability to scan QR codes. I didn’t use what Meta won’t release until later this year.
You can recall reminders you’ve left yourself as breadcrumbs for information. One example offered to me was asking Meta AI to remember where you parked in the garage at the airport. It can then recall that information when you ask it to fetch for it. But wouldn’t it be better if you didn’t have to ask it? Reminders are the kind of feature that would benefit from location data, something that Google and Apple’s AI can already do.
music is bellowing from the frames. As part of its batch of Meta Connect announcements, the glasses now work with Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, and iHeart Radio. I listened to Joost, my, from Spotify to hear how a bass-heavy song sounds on the Meta glasses. The bass wasn’t there, but the vibe was. If Meta can deliver a more sophisticated AI, that will undoubtedly help the vibes.
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