Meta sees that Future of data glasses as always-ready AI assistants. It is Meta Ray Bans have already made advances in this direction, and a number of features announced a week ago by Mark Zuckerberg, which I tried out on the Meta-Campus, are already available today. The additional camera-based AI features appear to further blur the line between AI requests and proactive use of the camera through the glasses.

A new app and firmware update now promises a more natural series of requests to which the glasses will respond for taking photos. Like I tried before, you could simply ask for something in front of you and the glasses could use that as a trigger to take a photo.

The glasses also recognize QR codes, open them on your phone, and make calls based on a phone number recognized by the camera (if you ask).

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A reminder function can be used to recall some memories later. I haven’t tried another one that can remember where you parked, but I’m curious to see how it works. It’s the beginning of Meta’s push into usage future AR glasses as supporting memory devices.

The update allows the glasses to record and send voice messages in Messenger and WhatsApp, but the improved music controls I tried on Connect aren’t there yet. Neither the live translation feature that Mark Zuckerberg showed off on stage, nor the AI ​​assistant feature that works when recording live videos.

The future of Meta’s AI-based camera capabilities will clearly grow, and with them the privacy questions will grow. A group of students recently found a way to use Ray-Bans to identify faces by passing the photos to another AI tool via Instagram, and with Meta opening up camera access on Quest headsets to developers next year, opens the future of advanced camera technology AI could quickly take surprising directions.