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Meta updates its good glasses with real-time AI video

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Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta good glasses are getting a number of new AI-powered upgrades, together with the power to have an ongoing dialog and translate between languages.

Ray-Ban Meta homeowners in Meta’s early entry program for the U.S. and Canada can now obtain firmware v11, which provides “reside AI.” First unveiled this fall, reside AI lets wearers constantly converse with Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, to reference issues they mentioned earlier within the dialog. Without having to say the “Hey, Meta” wakeword, wearers can interrupt Meta AI to ask follow-up questions or change the subject.

Live AI additionally works with real-time video. Wearers can ask questions on what they’re seeing in actual time — for instance, what’s round their neighborhood.

Real-time AI video for Ray-Ban Meta was a big focus of Meta’s Connect dev convention early this fall. Positioned as a solution to OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode with Vision and Google’s Project Astra, the tech permits Meta’s AI to reply questions on what’s in view of the glasses’ front-facing digicam.

With Monday’s replace, Meta turns into one of many first tech giants to market with real-time AI video on good glasses. Google just lately stated it plans to promote AR glasses with related capabilities, however the firm hasn’t dedicated to a concrete timeline.

Meta claims that, sooner or later, reside AI will even give “helpful strategies” earlier than a wearer asks. What type of strategies? The firm wouldn’t say.

Firmware v11 additionally introduces reside translation, which allows Ray-Ban Meta wearers to translate real-time speech between English and Spanish, French, or Italian. When a wearer is speaking to somebody talking a kind of languages, they’ll hear what the speaker says in English via the glasses’ open-ear audio system and get a transcript on their paired cellphone.

Ray-Ban Meta additionally has Shazam assist as of firmware v11. Wearers can say, “Hey, Meta, Shazam this tune” to have the glasses attempt to discover the tune that’s enjoying.

Meta warns that the brand new characteristic, specifically reside AI and reside translation, won’t at all times get issues proper. “We’re persevering with to be taught what works finest and enhancing the expertise for everybody,” the corporate wrote in a weblog submit.

Ray-Ban Meta final bought a significant replace in November, when Meta started to roll out sure AI capabilities to customers of the glasses in France, Italy, and Spain. The glasses proceed to promote fairly nicely; in October, Ray-Ban proprietor EssilorLuxottica advised Upload VR that Ray-Ban Meta was the top-selling glasses model in 60% of all Ray-Ban shops throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

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