Meta is updating its Ray-Ban smart glasses with new hands-free performance, the corporate introduced on Wednesday. Most notably, customers can now share a picture from their smart glasses directly to their Instagram Story without having to take out their cellphone.
After you take a photograph with the smart glasses, you can say, “Hey Meta, share my last photo to Instagram.” Or you can say, “Hey Meta, post a photo to Instagram” to take a brand new picture within the second.
The launch of the brand new characteristic is paying homage to the Snap Spectacles, which debuted in 2016 and allowed customers to seize images and movies with their smart glasses to share them directly to their Snapchat Stories.
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are additionally getting hands-free integrations with Amazon Music and meditation app Calm.
Users can now stream music from Amazon Music with out having to take out their cellphone by saying “Hey Meta, play Amazon Music.” You may also 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 Daily Calm” to have mindfulness workouts and self-care content material accessible directly via their smart glasses.
In addition, Meta is increasing the variety of types obtainable in 15 nations, together with the U.S., Canada, Australia and elements Europe. The enlargement consists of the fashion Skyler in Shiny Chalky Gray with Gradient Cinnamon Pink Lenses; Skyler in Shiny Black with Transitions Cerulean Blue Lenses; and Headliner Low Bridge Fit 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 smart glasses bought an AI improve. Meta rolled out multimodal AI to the smart glasses to allow customers to ask questions on what they see. For occasion, if you’re seeing a menu in French, the smart glasses might use their built-in digicam and Meta AI to translate the textual content for you.
The concept behind the launch is to permit the smart glasses to act as a private AI assistant exterior of your smartphone, in a method that’s comparable to Humane’s Ai pin.