Wearable technology is getting bigger these days. And now, Meta has added new features to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to not only make them more comfortable and stylish but also improve their digital lifestyle by making them more useful with multimodal AI.
Before now, you could only use the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to make videos, take photos, and livestream. Just your regular old glasses with cameras and speakers that fairly pass as headphones. You can now do a lot more with them, like figuring out a recipe by looking at ingredients before you and interacting with them, all while looking like a normal pair of sunglasses.
In essence, this multimodal AI will enable the AI assistant to understand different types of information—including photos, videos, text, and audio—allowing it see, hear, understand, and respond in real-world environments in real-time. That is, you would ask it "what am I looking at right now?" and it would actually tell you, making it more interactive and intuitive.
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The glasses have ultra-wide 12 MP cameras on both edges of the their frame, a bump from the 5 MP cameras they they used to have, and five micropones around it—to pick up your voice and the sounds around you. You interact with the AI assistant using voice commands. There is a touch panel on the side that can be used to play/pause music, and there is a shutter button for taking videos and photos.
It can read signs in different languages, Meta says, which is just great for travelling. Rather than pulling up your phone to understand what a sign says, you could simply "look at it" and ask Meta about it. And the same goes for asking the type of breed a dog is—before, you know, walking up to it to give it a warm hug or something.
Rather than turning it on with a button or a swtich, the glasses just come on when you take them out of their case and put them on. And then, "Hey, Meta" pretty much gets you started on your inquiry or command.
"We started testing a multimodal AI update in December, so you can ask your glasses about what you’re seeing, and they’ll give you smart, helpful answers or suggestions. That means you can do more with your glasses because now they can see what you see. Starting today, we’re rolling this functionality out to all Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the US and Canada in beta." Meta writes in a blog post.
Considering that the glasses are powered by Meta, it's expected for them to do something about linking up the glasses to their ecosystem of product to connect experiences. They are adding the ability to "share your view" on video calls on WhatsApp and Messenger—totally hands-free.
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It does make a lot of sense to add this Share Your View feature. People on video calls with you can "see through you eyes" and look at what you're looking at. I imagine this being particularly handy in showing cooking procedures or DIY projects to friends and family. You'd just put them on and let them see exactly what you're seeing as you go through the steps.
You know how most people think that people in glasses often look smarter? Well, you do not only get to look smarter with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, but you also get to "be smarter" with this multimodal AI assistant everywhere you look.
Although pulling up your phone in many instances may actually be faster, but the glasses comes in handy for identifying and learning about things when you're on the go. And they look pretty sleek, too. There are different versions available to keep you stylish, yet sophisticated with your digital productivity and lifestyle amped up.
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