Meta is updating its Ray-Ban sensible glasses with new hands-free performance, the corporate introduced on Wednesday. Most notably, customers can now share a picture from their sensible glasses on to their Instagram Story with no need to take out their cellphone.
After you are taking a photograph with the sensible glasses, you’ll be able to say, “Hey Meta, share my final photograph to Instagram.” Or you’ll be able to say, “Hey Meta, put up a photograph to Instagram” to take a brand new photograph within the second.
The launch of the brand new function is paying homage to the Snap Spectacles, which debuted in 2016 and allowed customers to seize pictures and movies with their sensible glasses to share them on to their Snapchat Tales.
Meta’s Ray-Ban sensible glasses are additionally getting hands-free integrations with Amazon Music and meditation app Calm.
Customers can now stream music from Amazon Music with out having to take out their cellphone by saying “Hey Meta, play Amazon Music.” You can even management your audio playback with contact or voice controls whereas your cellphone stays in your pocket.
To entry the brand new hands-free Calm integration, customers can say “Hey Meta, play the Each day Calm” to have mindfulness workouts and self-care content material accessible instantly via their sensible glasses.
As well as, Meta is increasing the variety of types obtainable in 15 international locations, together with the U.S., Canada, Australia and elements Europe. The enlargement consists of the model Skyler in Shiny Chalky Grey with Gradient Cinnamon Pink Lenses; Skyler in Shiny Black with Transitions Cerulean Blue Lenses; and Headliner Low Bridge Slot in Shiny Black with Polar G15 Lenses. The glasses can be found on each Meta’s and Ray-Ban’s web sites.
The launch of the brand new options comes a month after the sensible glasses received an AI improve. Meta rolled out multimodal AI to the sensible glasses to allow customers to ask questions on what they see. As an illustration, should you’re seeing a menu in French, the sensible glasses may use their built-in digital camera and Meta AI to translate the textual content for you.
The thought behind the launch is to permit the sensible glasses to behave as a private AI assistant outdoors of your smartphone, in a approach that’s much like Humane’s Ai pin.
