Posted 3/28/2024, 9:05:00 AM
Meta Upgrades Ray-Ban Smart Glasses with AI to Describe Surroundings, Though Not Yet Reliable
- Meta is releasing an AI update to its Ray-Ban smart glasses that will describe what you're looking at, like a scene from "Her"
- The glasses currently shoot photos/video and play music, but the AI adds new abilities like scanning landmarks and identifying objects
- To use it, you say "Hey Meta" followed by a prompt like "What kind of dog is this?" and it responds out loud
- A tech columnist and Meta reporter tested the AI glasses by scanning groceries, monuments, zoo animals over several weeks
- The AI made silly mistakes but they found the concept excitingly futuristic, like sci-fi movies becoming real