Meta Announces Updates and New Features for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

TapTechNews September 26th news, at the MetaConnect 2024 Developer Conference, Meta announced that Ray-Ban smart glasses will迎来 a series of software updates to enhance the intelligent experience, and also launched a limited edition transparent frame.

According to TapTechNews' understanding, these new features include Reminders, which allows the glasses to take pictures of the surrounding environment and later remind the user through mobile phone notifications. In addition, users can also directly scan QR codes and dial phone numbers through the glasses.

MetaRay-Ban glasses already have the function of extracting text from static images and translating it. Now the company says it is developing a real-time language translation function that can translate the heard content in real time through the speaker on the glasses. This function will be launched in the next few months and supports translation between English, French, Italian and Spanish.

The company also plans to add a real-time video processing function so that the glasses can immediately understand the surrounding environment, but this function has to wait until later this year to be launched.

In addition to the software updates, Meta has also cooperated with Ray-Ban's parent company EssilorLuxottica to launch new photochromic lenses. In addition, there is also a limited edition transparent frame that can display all the technology inside the glasses. The frame is now on the market, but only 7500 pairs are limited.

Although Meta has not yet announced the sales data of Ray-Ban, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the smart glasses have exceeded their expectations, so that EssilorLuxottica had to increase production to meet the high demand. According to IDC's estimate, Meta has shipped more than 700,000 pairs of Ray-Ban, and the orders in the second quarter of this year have more than doubled compared to the first quarter.

Zuckerberg seems to have high hopes for smart glasses. He said in an interview with TheVerge this week: I think MetaAI is becoming a more prominent feature of glasses, and you can do more things. This is not to say that we are going to throw away the phone, but I think what will happen next is that slowly, we will start to do more things with glasses and put the phone more in the pocket.