Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Get Live AI and Translation Features

Meta has made improvements to its Ray-Ban smart glasses with some awesome new features like live translation and live AI, helping to make them more useful and interactive. This includes updates to assist people in all sorts of scenarios such as cooking, gardening, and exploring unfamiliar areas, with real-time guidance.

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Get Live AI, Translation, and Shazam Features: Early Access Program Opens

The live AI function, allows the glasses to literally see what the user sees with a built in camera making conversations hands free. Incredible part about this feature is its contextual understanding between different requests and thus the glasses can remember past delivery. This allows users to pose questions without the need to use the wake word “Hey Meta,” which makes the interaction feel more organic and seamless. Meta’s mission is to eventually get the AI to a place where it starts suggesting things before users even know they need them.

Another big change comes in the form of live translation, which can now translate back and forth in real time between English and three other languages: Spanish, French, and Italian. If anyone speaks any of these languages, the glasses can stream a translation in English to the speakers or forward the translated words to a linked smartphone. It makes travel and interactions with those who speak another language easier by allowing communication across languages.

Meta has also integrated Shazam into the smart glasses, allowing users to identify songs by simply asking, “Hey Meta, what is this song?” With Shazam, the glasses can provide the song title, which is especially useful when encountering new or unfamiliar music.

The latter features are included in a new Early Access Program by Meta for the Ray-Ban smart glasses owners who join via the Meta website. But spots are limited for users in the U.S. and Canada. As interest in smart glasses continues to grow, and rumors say that Apple is planning a similar device for the market, it will certainly be fascinating to see how these developments will drive the future of wearables tech.

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