Posted on 09/18/2025 3:10:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
If you can't resist the urge to check your phone over and over, even if you're out with friends, Meta has a solution: check your glasses instead...
Meta's Reality Labs division burns cash at an alarming rate, which has concerned investors over the years...
Meta has had its fair share of flops, like the entire promise of its social metaverse...
But with the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta has created a remarkable piece of technology, unlike any other consumer-facing product on the market -- we have yet to test it ourselves, so we can't quite say just how groundbreaking this really is, but it looks promising.
Like Meta's existing smart glasses, which have sold millions of pairs, the new model has cameras, speakers, microphones, and an on-board AI assistant. The display on the glasses, which is offset so as not to obstruct one's sightline, can display Meta apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, as well as directions and live translations.
What most sets the Meta Ray-Ban Display apart is the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to pick up on signals sent between your brain and your hand when performing a gesture...
While some live AI demos at the keynote failed -- Zuckerberg blamed the Wi-Fi -- we at least got to see the wristband in action, which is more novel. Zuckerberg quickly wrote out text messages, then sent them on his Ray-Bans.
"I'm up to about 30 words a minute on this," Zuckerberg said onstage at the company's Menlo Park headquarters. "You can get pretty fast."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Glasses will be an even bigger distraction for most people.
I expect a lot more driving accidents.
then you are addicted.
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