During a key note Address at Met’s Connect Event Today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed his vision on what he considers the future of his company hardware efforts: smart glasses.
The new models include a set of frames made for action sports, an update of the original meta design and a more capable model with the visualization technology integrated into the lenses that allows the carrier to see text, images and video overlaid in their field of view.
Facial computer science is a successful sales goal for a couple of years. The company has quickly become the leader of the Smart Glasses race, after having sold millions of units since launching its collaboration with Ray-Ban in 2023. In July this year, Meta consolidated its priorities by investing about $ 3.5 billion to achieve a minority participation in the company of Essilorluxottica Glasses, which is the owner of Ray-Ban, Oakley and numerous Eyeglass Marques.
Meta sees its technology, which can be carried as a natural duct for their AI efforts, including its voice -controlled chat. During a earnings call earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that in the future, people who do not wear smart glasses will be at a “major cognitive disadvantage” compared to the people who carry them.
The new smart glasses officially revealed to Meta Connect, despite the fact that Meta had been collected by the news of its new glasses two days earlier.
We had the opportunity to try all the new shows, both at Meta Connect in Menlo Park, California, and in a exclusive preview event in London. Here are the details of all the glasses shown.
Meta Ray-Bet
The new flagship product of the Glasses Meta Line is the Ray-Ban Display, a computer system that can be brought for augmented reality. It feels like the first commercial step to realize the Orion glasses that were made in Connect last year.
As the name implies, this is the first pair of glasses you can buy that shows text, images and video directly on the lens, allowing users to see whatsapp messages, instagram rollers and video calls completely inside the glasses. The display window appears on the lens of the right eye. The resolution is 42 PPD (pixels per degree). If you close the left eye and look at the eye eye, the view of the screen looks excellent. Trying to read the screen while looking at your glasses with both eyes, you want to cross your eyes and get used to getting used to it.
The interaction with the screen requires the use of the metonal band of the finish line, a bracelet that can detect a range of subtle hand gestures. The gestures he can recognize include a touch of the index and the middle fingers to select, go back or awaken and sleep the screen; a thumb stroke through the index finger to navigate the menus; and sponge and turn movements to control the volume of the music or zooms of the camera. There is also a double touch of thumb to manually wake up the Ai Chatbot goal instead of using a wakefulness word.
