Meta Launches Cheaper Smart Glasses Without Ray-Ban (theverge.com) 32
Meta has launched its first smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding. Starting at $299, they're cheaper than the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 while retaining EssilorLuxottica as a design and manufacturing partner. The Verge reports: As far as style and specs, the Meta Glasses aren't that different from Ray-Bans. The internal specs are the same as the recently released Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles, with slightly longer battery life. The Adventurer models have thinner rims, while the Fury models hew a bit closer to the Meta Ray-Ban Display with a bolder, chunkier frame. You could describe the Adventurer as square, and the Fury as even more square. The Kylie glasses sport a more unique design with a distinct Y2K flavor that I'm told is meant to be worn lower on your nose. [...] While playing around with the Meta Glasses, it was hard not to notice that the camera appears smaller than in previous Ray-Ban glasses. Technically, Himel tells me, that's not new to these Meta Glasses. It was actually introduced back in March with the prescription-optimized Optics Styles.
[...] Meta is quadrupling down on AI. The new Meta Glasses will all launch with Muse Spark, the first model out of Meta's Superintelligence Labs. (It'll also be arriving on older Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses in the US and Canada via a software update.) Supposedly, that means more helpful glasses. At my hands-on, I was told that Meta AI would now be less stiff. I'd be able to talk to it more naturally and get smarter responses. The AI now supports 14 more languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Hindi, and Korean. Pedestrian turn-by-turn navigation is also coming to Meta's displayless glasses. Later this month, there'll be a new "dynamic photo" feature that automatically takes multiple frames and then recommends the best one.
[...] Meta is quadrupling down on AI. The new Meta Glasses will all launch with Muse Spark, the first model out of Meta's Superintelligence Labs. (It'll also be arriving on older Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses in the US and Canada via a software update.) Supposedly, that means more helpful glasses. At my hands-on, I was told that Meta AI would now be less stiff. I'd be able to talk to it more naturally and get smarter responses. The AI now supports 14 more languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Hindi, and Korean. Pedestrian turn-by-turn navigation is also coming to Meta's displayless glasses. Later this month, there'll be a new "dynamic photo" feature that automatically takes multiple frames and then recommends the best one.
Never. Ever (Score:3)
You'd pay me to wear "smart glasses" and I wouldn't want them.
Now get off my lawn!
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I predict that this poster A) said the exact same thing about smartphones and B) now owns the latest, priciest iPhone.
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Even if you're someone who'd rather not have a smartphone, they're pretty much unavoidable because there's even restaurants nowadays that expect you to have one to view their online menu, theme parks that expect you to use their app to book ride reservations, and EV chargers without credit card readers (again, they expect you to use their app).
I don't ever see smart glasses getting to the point where businesses just assume everybody has them.
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The difference is the smartphone does something useful, the glasses don't.
(Not useful to you, at least.)
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Even before "smart glasses" they lost me at "Meta" and "EssilorLuxottica" lol they're both horrible companies
Re: META off! (Score:1)
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Re: META off! (Score:1)
Title Correction: (Score:1)
"Privacy Rapist Meta[stasize] Launches Cheaper Smart Glasses Without Ray-Ban"
There FTFY.
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Sebby the rape fetishist!
Here you go [slashdot.org] you easily triggered Meta[stasize]/Alphaslop employee.
Sounds uncomfortable. (Score:2)
I don't like the sound of these "internal specs" to which the article refers . Does the camera do AI analysis of the user's hemorrhoids?
How long can Meta survive...? (Score:4, Funny)
How long can Meta survive without shipping a product people actually want?
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How long can Meta survive without shipping a product people actually want?
They have like $80B in cash and cash equivalents. They can stick around for decades like AOL and Yahoo.
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Not if they keep spending 10 figures a year trying to make VR happen.
Never Meta (Score:2)
I would love to have some good smart glasses.
No fucking way in hell would I ever, ever buy smart glasses that have even the slightest thing to do with Meta.
That's what I really want (Score:3)
a cheaper way to erode everyone's privacy and let FB and Zuck increase their intrusion in to my life and everyone else's. Imagine your in the age before cellphones and computers. A billionaire is commissioning a device to track everyone and everything around them and people are actually buying it, the device gives them more info about their surroundings and feeds back all information so the company can sell more ads to people and enslave humanity. The future is now.
Never Meta (Score:3)
I'd love a nice HUD on normal-looking glasses, driven by a local connection to my phone.
Never would I ever touch anything that's basically a camera ingesting everything for submission to Facebook.
If I could use them with Gemini or Claude, maybe (Score:3)
I have zero interest in getting looped into Meta's sub-standard AI and relying on it for stuff when the rest of my ecosystem is all wired into Gemini and Claude.
When will a glasses maker launch with OPEN SUPPORT for what AI assistant you want to use with it? Why does it need to be tied to a specific vendor?