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(WIFR) - Meta believes the “Future is for Everyone.” The tech industry giant announced legally blind veterans in America can get a free pair of its Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. While most people probably know the spectacles as being used to record hands-free first-person point-of-view content with its camera, its built-in multimodal AI assistant can understand auditory requests and process visual cues. Meta says the initiative to get the wearable tech in the hands and on the heads of blind veterans is designed to help them live more independently. The Meta AI, which is built on Meta’s large language model...

For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in the name of journalism.) I wasn’t hiding the camera, but I was wearing it, and no one noticed. I was testing the recently released $300 Ray-Ban Meta glasses that Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking empire made in collaboration with the iconic eyewear maker. The high-tech glasses include a camera for shooting photos and videos, and an array of speakers and microphones for listening to music and...