exist Meta At the Connect 2024 developer conference, Meta announced that Ray-Ban Smart glassesA series of software updates to enhance the smart experience will be coming, along with a limited edition clear frame.
These new features include "Reminders".Allows the glasses to take a picture of their surroundings and alert the user later via a cell phone notification. In addition, users can scan QR codes and dial phone numbers directly through their glasses.
Meta Ray-Ban glasses already have the ability to extract text from still images and translate it.Now the company says it's working on a real-time language translation feature that translates what it hears in real time through the speakers on the glasses. The feature, which will be rolled out in the coming months, supports translation between English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The company also plans to add real-time video processing so the glasses can immediately understand their surroundings, but that feature won't be available until later this year.
In addition to the software update, Meta has teamed up with Ray-Ban's parent company, EssilorLuxottica, to introduce new color-changing lenses. There's also a limited edition clear frame that shows off all the technology inside the glasses. The frames are available now, but are limited to 7,500 pairs.
While Meta has yet to release sales figures for the Ray-Ban, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the smart glasses have exceeded their expectations so much so that EssilorLuxottica has had to increase production to meet the high demand. According to IDC estimates, Meta has shipped more than 700,000 pairs of Ray-Ban, with orders more than doubling in the second quarter of this year compared to the first.
Zuckerberg seems to have high hopes for smart glasses, saying in an interview with The Verge this week, "I think Meta AI is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of glasses, where you can do more things. That's not to say we're going to get rid of our phones, but I think what's going to happen next is that, slowly, we're going to start doing more things with our glasses and putting our phones in our pockets more."