Meta has unveiled a set of new features for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, further enhancing their functionality with live translation and live AI. These updates aim to make the glasses more versatile and interactive, allowing for a wider range of hands-free assistance in daily life.
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Meta Adds Live AI, Translation, and Shazam to Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
The highlight of this is the Live AI feature. The built-in camera equipped with the smart glasses makes the smart glasses capable of seeing exactly what the user sees and having conversations accordingly. The AI assistant provides hands-free assistance when cooking, gardening, or exploring an environment. One of the biggest upgrades is that users no longer have to say the wake word “Hey Meta” to wake up the assistant.
The AI can also get the idea of context from previous requests, so users can ask questions casually, and interactions become more user-friendly. Meta adds that in time, the AI will also anticipate and offer helpful suggestions even before users ask for them, providing another level of convenience.
Meta has introduced live translation too, which is an extremely useful tool to break page language barriers, along with live AI. The glasses can now translate in real-time English into three other languages — Spanish, French, and Italian. When someone speaks any of these tongues, the glasses instantly translate the chat into English through a built-in speaker or on a connected smartphone. This feature also works in the opposite direction and translates English to the supported languages.
It has also built Shazam into the glasses. Now, say users just need to say, “Hey Meta, what’s this song?” and the glasses will identify the song via Shazam, now an Apple company rich in the profit-kiting bounty of iOS. These features are available to users of Ray-Ban smart glasses in the United States and Canada through Meta’s Early Access Program. Though the participation slots are limited. Meta has teased its updates to the tech’s smart glasses with interest and Apple is rumored to potentially be working on a similar type of smart glasses with similar features, including Siri integration and embedded cameras.
FAQs
Can the Meta Ray-Ban glasses translate languages in real time?
Yes, they can translate between English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
What new feature does Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses offer for music?
The glasses can identify songs using Shazam.
