The author suggests that the glasses could be useful for travelers, offering real-time translations and landmark identification. However, the glasses' wide-angle lens requires the wearer to be close to the text for the AI to see it clearly. The author also found the glasses' ability to suggest recipes based on shown ingredients interesting, but not necessarily practical. The author concludes that while the glasses have potential, the AI needs to be more consistent and accurate for the glasses to be truly useful.
Key takeaways:
- The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have introduced new features including multimodal AI, which allows the glasses to respond to queries based on what the user is looking at, and real-time information updates.
- While the multimodal search feature has potential, it is not entirely useful yet and the real-time information feature often provides inaccurate information.
- The glasses can identify objects and provide translations, which could be useful for travelers, but the wide-angle lens requires the user to be close to the text for accurate translation.
- Meta AI struggles with real-time information, often providing incorrect answers to simple questions and citing inaccurate sources, raising concerns about the potential for misinformation.