Meta continues to slip some practical functions inside its Ray-Ban glasses, such as live translation or song identification.
Live AI and Live Translation are the two main new functions offered for testing to North American Ray-Ban Meta users. They could later be aimed at a wider audience since they take into account a handful of foreign languages, including French. Meta, however, does not give any timetable.
With live AI first, the glasses use their cameras to constantly analyze what you’re looking at and answer your questions, without the need to precede them with a “Hey Meta” (equivalent to Hey Siri), like c This is the case today with Meta AI.
This is to allow a more fluid exchange between Meta’s AI and the user, who will for example be following a cooking recipe, gardening or walking in a tourist district, to take the examples proposed . Secondly, Meta plans for its AI to be able to precede a question and provide certain contextual information on its own. Presumably, if you look hard at a famous building, they’ll tell you some details about it.
Then the glasses activate the live translation function, shown two months ago by Mark Zuckerberg in an exchange in English on one side and Spanish on the other. The wearer of the glasses obtains an English translation of comments made by a person in front of him who will speak in Spanish, Italian or French. He hears this translation through the headphones located in the temples of the glasses and a transcription is displayed on his phone in the Meta View app. If the other person also wears these glasses, each person can express themselves without their language and have their words translated as if an interpreter were working between the two.
More classic, but nevertheless practical is the integration of Shazam to ask the glasses to identify a song heard. These functions are still being evaluated by users in the United States and Canada who can contact Meta. The Ray-Ban Meta costs between €360 and €410 depending on the model.
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