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 of their sensible glasses on to their Instagram Story with out having to select up their cellphone.
After taking a photograph with the sensible glasses, you may say, “Hey Meta, share my newest photograph on Instagram.” Or you may say, “Hey Meta, submit a photograph to Instagram” to take a brand new photograph at that second.
The launch of the brand new characteristic is harking back to the Snap Spectacles, which debuted in 2016 and allowed customers to take photographs and movies with their sensible glasses and share them on to their Snapchat Tales.
Meta’s Ray-Ban sensible glasses additionally get hands-free integrations with Amazon Music and meditation app Calm.
Customers can now stream music from Amazon Music with out having to select up 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 Day by day Calm” to make mindfulness workout routines and self-care content material accessible immediately by means of their sensible glasses.
Moreover, Meta is increasing the variety of kinds accessible in 15 nations, together with the US, Canada, Australia and components of Europe. The growth consists of the Skyler type in shiny chalk grey with gradient cinnamon pink lenses; Skyler in gloss black with cerulean blue lens transitions; and Headliner Low Bridge Slot in gloss black with Polar G15 lenses. The glasses can be found on the Meta and Ray-Ban web sites.
The launch of the brand new options comes a month after the sensible glasses obtained an AI improve. Meta has rolled out multimodal AI to its sensible glasses, permitting customers to ask questions on what they see. For instance, in case you see a menu in French, the sensible glasses can use its built-in digicam and Meta AI to translate the textual content for you.
The concept behind the launch is for the sensible glasses to behave as a private AI assistant outdoors of your smartphone, in a method just like Humane’s AI Pin.