Meta\u2019s newest artificial-intelligence-powered smart glasses include a tiny display and can be controlled by a neural wristband that lets you manage it with \u201cbarely perceptible movements\u201d, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said.<\/p>\n
Mr Zuckerberg continues to promote the glasses as the next step in human-computer interactions \u2014 beyond keyboards, touch screens or a mouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlasses are the only form factor where you can let AI see what you see, hear what you hear,\u201d and eventually generate what you want to generate, such as images or video, Mr Zuckerberg said, speaking at the tech giant\u2019s California headquarters.<\/p>\n
The glasses, called Meta Ray-Ban Display, will be available on September 30 and cost 799 US dollars (\u00a3586).<\/p>\n
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg promotes the glasses as the next step in human-computer interactions (Nic Coury\/AP) <\/p>\n
Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester, said Meta\u2019s latest reveal is \u201creminiscent of when the Apple Watch first debuted as an alternative to the smartphone\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what these glasses do is bring more utility to consumers in a single device. Unlike VR headsets, glasses are an everyday, non-cumbersome form factor,\u201d the analyst said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the onus is on Meta to convince the vast majority of people who don\u2019t own AI glasses that the benefits outweigh the cost. The good news? There\u2019s a lot of runway to earn market share.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meta also updated its original, display-less Ray-Ban glasses to have a better battery life, which Meta says lasts eight hours with typical use, nearly twice as long as the previous model.<\/p>\n
An upcoming feature, called \u201cconversation focus\u201d, will amplify the voice of the person the user is speaking to and help drown out background noise.<\/p>\n
Meta has been making massive investments in AI development (Nic Coury\/AP) <\/p>\n
This will be available on the older version of the glasses too, as a software update, Mr Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n
Meta has also added German and Portuguese to the gadget\u2019s live translation capabilities.<\/p>\n
The new model costs 379 dollars (\u00a3278), and the previous model now costs 299 dollars (\u00a3219).<\/p>\n
The company also unveiled a new set of AI-powered glasses for athletes, called the Oakley Meta Vanguard, which Meta says is specifically for \u201chigh-intensity sports\u201d and can be integrated with Garmin devices to give users feedback about their workouts such as heart rate and statistics.<\/p>\n
For instance, a runner could ask \u201cHey Meta, what\u2019s my heart rate?\u201d and get a voice response through the glasses.<\/p>\n
It also auto-captures video clips when the user hits key milestones or ramps up their heart rate, speed or elevation.<\/p>\n
The glasses will cost 499 dollars (\u00a3366) and go on sale on October 21.<\/p>\n
While the company has not disclosed sales figures for the glasses, it said they have been more popular than expected.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor more than a decade, Zuckerberg\u2019s long-term vision with Oculus and the Metaverse has been that glasses and headsets will blur the lines between physical and digital worlds,\u201d Forrester analyst Thomas Husson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter many false starts, the momentum to move beyond an early adopter niche is now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meta teased a prototype for Orion, which Mr Zuckerberg called \u201cthe most advanced glasses the world has ever seen\u201d, last year \u2014 but these holographic-augmented reality glasses are still years away from being on the market.<\/p>\n
Like other tech companies, Meta has been making massive investments in AI development and hiring top talent at eye-popping compensation levels.<\/p>\n
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will cost \u00a3586 (Nic Coury\/AP) <\/p>\n
In July, Mr Zuckerberg posted a note detailing his views on \u201cpersonal superintelligence\u201d that he believes will \u201chelp humanity accelerate our pace of progress\u201d.<\/p>\n
While he said that developing superintelligence was now \u201cin sight\u201d, he did not detail how this would be achieved or exactly what \u201csuperintelligence\u201d meant.<\/p>\n
The abstract idea of \u201csuperintelligence\u201d is what rival companies call artificial general intelligence, or AGI.<\/p>\n
Mr Zuckerberg has said he believes AI glasses are going to be \u201cthe main way we integrate superintelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s newest artificial-intelligence-powered smart glasses include a tiny display and can be controlled by a neural wristband that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21366,85,46,3032,21367,13451,125,20756],"class_list":["post-23443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-human-computer-interactions","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-ray-ban-glasses","tag-smart-glasses","tag-technology","tag-the-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}