Meta has revealed its latest innovation: Ray-Ban smart glasses enhanced with augmented reality (AR), alongside two other new AI smart glasses models. The Meta Ray-Ban Display marks the company’s inaugural venture into smart glasses with a heads-up display, following the footsteps of Google Glass. The design of the glasses, inspired by the iconic Wayfarer style, conceals a camera, microphone, and speakers, ensuring the glasses maintain a familiar aesthetic.
Positioned in the right lens, a compact, clear display offers visual information just below the wearer’s field of vision. This display can render text, display images, facilitate live video calls, and more. It only activates when the user interacts with the glasses, ensuring discretion. An external LED light indicates camera activity.
Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, made the announcement at the Meta Connect event on Wednesday.
Zuckerberg highlighted the unique advantage of glasses in allowing AI to understand a user’s sensory experience, including visual and auditory inputs, ultimately enabling the generation of desired content, such as images or video. This remark was made at the Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.