Mark Zuckerberg has been very active lately and does not leave a moment to talk about the virtues and advantages of the Meta Quest 3. Now he has done something similar, but about his Ray-Bans, which now, thanks to artificial intelligence, are able to identify locations and even give details about them with the voice assistant.
The ace visual search functions using artificial intelligence It is not that this is something new for Meta’s augmented reality glasses, but that last year they were included so that some would surprise with their capabilities.
But now we can say that Meta’s Ray-Bans they become more useful with the good news available in the beta version. In reality, it identifies reference points at different locations to provide data and thus locate the user. That is, they become a kind of tour guide when you explore new places.
Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta, in an article on Threads, shares some of the photographs to be shown why the golden door is orange or the story of a well-known mural in San Francisco. You can read the text with the image description just below each image.
Mark Zuckerberg took to his Instagram account to show off the new Meta Ray-Ban experience with some videos taken in Montana. Unlike the examples given by Bosworth, Zuckerberg shows how AI gives an audio summary offer a verbal description of some of the region’s most iconic places like the Roosevelt Arch.
It is an experience that The company has already made progress last year in Connect as part of the multimodal capabilities that allow questions to be answered based on the environment surrounding the user while wearing these glasses. This is part of Meta’s Google Lens-like feature that lets users show what they see through the glasses.
Yes, according to Engadgetfor the moment it is only available in the early access program in which there are very few participants. Bossworth encourages other Ray-Ban eyewear owners in Meta to sign up for the waiting list, in hopes of expanding the program to more users.
Glasses that show a little of the future of this type of accessories that do not require much effort to wear and provide important information at certain times, unlike the Meta Quest 3 or the Apple Vision Pro.