Ray-Ban and Meta released AI smart glasses for $299 with a camera, livestreaming, and voice assistant. The promised visual understanding and text translation features aren't here yet, coming in a free update next year, which has some early buyers frustrated.
Meta partnered up with Ray Ban to bring us AI enabled smart glasses. And if you considered them even for a second, I don't blame you for $299. Given all they offer, it's not the worst deal in the world. However, it seems like some early adopters were left disappointed.
Why?
They got super excited about the initial announcements. The prospect of having AI and a camera right there on your face, you can talk to it at any time seems enticing. But they missed a little detail in Zuckerberg's announcement.
Starting next year, we're going to be issuing a free software update to the glasses that makes them multimodal. So they so the glasses are going to be able to understand what you're looking at.
Currently, you can take photos in okay quality. You can live stream and use the glasses on headphones. However, the standout feature is the AI, and right now all you can do is talk to it. It's like a better Siri, which I don't think is that revolutionary at this point in time. The incredible part was that in the demo it could pick up the objects that you see with the glasses, and if you're for example, looking at a foreign menu, you could translate all the text like so. But that feature is not available yet. It's coming sometimes next year, so if you already bought them, you might have to be patient.
