Meta’s smart glasses are becoming AI. We took them for a spin

What happens when a columnist and a reporter use AI glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes.

Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac

Apr 1, 2024 – 10.31am

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In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms the Ray-Ban Meta, its camera glasses that shoot videos, into a gadget seen only in sci-fi movies.

From this month, the glasses will be able to use new artificial intelligence software to see the real world and describe what you’re looking at, similar to the AI assistant in the movie Her.