Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses get smarter with multimodal AI

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Get ready for a boost in brainpower for your shades! According to a recent New York Times report, Meta is bringing advanced AI features to its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses starting next month.

This multimodal AI can do some impressive tricks: translating languages on the fly and identifying objects, animals, and even famous landmarks. The feature has been in testing since last December through an early access program.

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Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses get smarter with multimodal AI features

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Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are getting a major artificial intelligence upgrade. The company announced today that it will begin testing its multimodal AI features, providing information and suggestions based on what the glasses see and hear.

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Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories doubles recording time to 60 seconds

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As Facebook brings its Ray-Ban Stories to more markets, the company updates the smart glasses to add new features. A significant update is the increase of its recording capability from 30 seconds to 60 seconds. Also, the Facebook View app adds language support for French, Spanish, German, and Dutch. The glasses can also now understand voice commands in French and Italian so that you can take photos and videos hands-free. And if its low batt or you've used up all its storage, the Ray-Ban Stories now has audible notifications.

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Facebook and Ray-Ban officially launch smart glasses

Facebook is taking its first stab at smart glasses through its partnership with Ray-Ban. The Ray-Ban Stories are glasses that bring the eyewear's classic Wayfarer designs and adds cameras, a microphone, and speakers to them. Each side hides a camera capable of shooting five-megapixel stills and videos of up to 30 seconds that you can trigger with a long or short tap on its single button. The camera setup is similar to Snap's Spectacles, but Ray-Ban Stories take this further with open-ear speakers and a three-mic audio array, which will let you control the glasses by voice.

This product is, first and foremost, a Ray-Ban device. According to Andrew Bosworth, Facebook Reality Labs' head, the glasses are designed to "help people live in the moment and stay connected to the people they are with and the people they wish they were with."

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