{"id":638090,"date":"2026-05-12T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638090\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:22:17","slug":"ai-takes-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses-to-the-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638090\/","title":{"rendered":"AI takes Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses to the next level"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iPhone put a powerful computer in your pocket. Now, Meta\u2019s new AI-enabled glasses<\/a> are putting technology on the bridge of your nose.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re \u201ca game changer,\u201d Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta<\/a> and head of its Reality Labs division, told The Post.<\/p>\n

Early versions of Meta\u2019s smart glasses mostly functioned by taking pictures and shooting videos. With the addition of AI, they do much more, answering questions and responding with text on one lens for Display models or via audio built into the stems on non-Display models. The latest Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) glasses start at $379 .<\/p>\n

Paired with the Meta Neural Band ($799 with the glasses), the specs can be controlled remotely via finger movements.<\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta\u2019s CTO Andrew Bosworth wear the glasses that Bosworth describes as \u201ca game changer.\u201d Instagram<\/p>\n

All of the current models of glasses provide the ability to use the ingenuity of artificial intelligence for gleaning information about, say, a painting you are looking at in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or a conversation you\u2019re having with someone speaking a different language.<\/p>\n

In the latter instance, a translation of what the other person is saying appears as text on the lens that only the user can see. <\/p>\n

First Lady Melania Trump takes a pair of Meta glasses for a test drive near the White House tennis courts. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe glasses will provide real-world subtitles,\u201d enthused Bosworth.<\/p>\n

In the future, he imagines the glasses\u2019 AI component getting to know you and predicting what you need before you have a chance to request it. <\/p>\n

The glasses could sense you\u2019re getting ready to leave the house and automatically offer advice on the weather. <\/p>\n

A guest at the White House Easter Egg Roll enjoys her festively tinted Meta glasses. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Already, with a verbal prompt, a pair of Meta glasses can, for example, take the headache out finding your car in a large shopping-mall lot. It can take a photo of where you are parked and send an image to your phone as a visual reminder.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemory is a good one [for the future],\u201d Bosworth said. \u201cImagine [the glasses] remembering where you left your keys or cell phone\u201d \u2014 because it saw you put the items down.\u201d <\/p>\n

At a restaurant, the glasses could see you\u2019re signing a check, know that you typically tip 20% and calculate the amount for you. <\/p>\n

DJ Diplo (right) sports the Meta glass and fist bumps Mark Zuckerberg. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The glasses could even provide a boost for party-people who are bad with faces, once a few privacy issues are sorted out. If you are at a party and come across a person you vaguely recognize, the glasses could catalogue all the people you\u2019ve met and their identities.<\/p>\n

They could then tip you off to someone\u2019s name and, maybe a tidbit of knowledge about them \u2013 Michael Kaplan, he works for the New York Post and wrote the fabulous book \u201cAdvantage Players<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s doable now,\u201d Bosworth explained. \u201c[But] legally, it\u2019s not permissible today. I understand that people have anxiety about it \u2026 But we\u2019re not talking about building a central face database.\u201d<\/p>\n

Privacy issues have already arisen from people who claim to have been surreptitiously videotaped with the glasses. They alert people that they\u2019re recording with a blinking light in the upper-right-hand corner, but some sneaky users cover the light with tape.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bosworth (left) sports the glasses with his friend James Cameron. James Cameron \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

However, Bosworth noted, work-arounds to mask the light will likely get one only so far at the moment. \u201cIf you cover the light up, we do our best to disable the camera,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The glasses have been endorsed by several major celebrities, including Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, Kris Jenner<\/a> and James Cameron.<\/p>\n

The futuristic eye-gear looks like it could have been inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger in \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d which Cameron<\/a> directed. But Bosworth, a friend of the Oscar-winner, denies any connection.<\/p>\n

Some day, Meta\u2019s smart glasses will help us to find missing keys, plan dinner parties and remember the names of easily forgotten people. Meta<\/p>\n

The specs are also likely to be popular with influencers, reporters \u2013 Page Sixers<\/a> wore them to cover the Met Gala \u2013 vacationing shutterbugs and new parents who don\u2019t want to miss a thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our engineers caught their child\u2019s first steps [with the glasses],\u201d said Bosworth. \u201cYou\u2019re never going to be ready for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The glasses are also life-changing to veterans<\/p>\n

Don Overton, who served with the Army\u2019s 82nd Airborne Division<\/a> and was blinded in an ordnance bunker explosion, uses the specs as a virtual personal assistant. Using voice controls they help him get dressed and navigate as he walks about.<\/p>\n

DJ Austin Millz looks cool with his Meta glasses at at the Meta Sonic Listening Party in Miami. Getty Images for Meta<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the different adaptive technologies that I\u2019ve tried in 30-plus years were never capable of giving me the levels of independence that I was able to receive with these glasses and to be able to really lighten the burden on my wife, Peggy,\u201d Overton previously told The Post.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re only just beginning to see the possibilities for the technology, Bosworth believes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think of [them] as empowerment, but, really, [they\u2019re] giving every person super powers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iPhone put a powerful computer in your pocket. Now, Meta\u2019s new AI-enabled glasses are putting technology on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,28,107546,20380,12424,1282,74],"class_list":["post-638090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-eyeglasses","tag-james-cameron","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}