Meta AI, which is the most exciting thing you can do using Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, will soon be more widely available. The company’s Live Translation is now available. In the US and Canada, will be rolled out to all product markets. Live AI (where users can have a conversation about what they’re looking at in real-time) will also soon be available. Meta AI is now available to glasses owners in Europe.
The live translation feature, which was previously available only in early access, will now be available in all regions where Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses are available. The AI-powered feature is useful for trips abroad and chats with locals that speak a different tongue. It speaks a translation into your preferred language in real-time. You can also view the translated transcript on your smartphone. Live translation in English, French and Italian is available at
. You can download your preferred language packs in advance and use them without any Wi-Fi or mobile data connection. You can launch this feature by saying: “Hey Meta, start live translation.”
US users and Canadians can now use Meta Live AI, which allows you to ask questions about the environment without having to say “Hey Meta” each time. You can even interrupt it. Live AI, a feature that was previously only available as a beta, lets you chat in natural language with your glasses about your environment. You can ask it to explain things such as missing ingredients for a dish or the best wine pairing. You can start by saying “Hey Meta, start live AI” .
Meta AI will be available in all EU countries that support the product. Starting next week, EU nations will have the visual search feature, which can answer questions about your environment, but unlike Live AI, cannot perform a conversation that is free-flowing and interrupted.
The Instagram integration of the glasses is also expanding. Meta says that you will soon be able to send and receive Instagram DMs and photos, as well as audio and video calls, on your Ray-Bans. The glasses already supported messages and calls through WhatsApp, Messenger, and your phone’s messaging application. You can begin by saying “Hey Meta, send a message to [your recipient’s name] on Instagram.”
Support for music apps is expanding beyond US and Canada. The company has begun rolling out Spotify, Amazon Music Apple Music and Shazam to non-North American regions. Meta and Ray-Ban have launched new styles of second-gen glasses. Although no major hardware updates were announced today, the next revision with a touchscreen is rumored for later this year, Meta and Ray-Ban have released new frame and lens color combinations. There are new Skyler frame color combinationsincluding the cat-eye-shaped Shiny Chalky Gray and Transitions Sapphire lenses, “more timeless” Skyler Shiny Black and G15 Green lenses, and Skyler Shiny Black and Clear lenses.
