Meta detailed the brand new options arriving on the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in a newsroom post. The Shazam integration is being rolled out as a part of the v11 software program replace for the sensible glasses that’s now rolling out to eligible units. However, it’s presently restricted to Canada and the US.
It presents hands-free music recognition by way of voice prompts. Users can ask, “Hey Meta, what is that this track?” and the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses will establish the track utilizing Shazam. This characteristic is claimed to come in useful in conditions when an excellent monitor is taking part in, resembling in a retailer or a restaurant, serving to customers know the monitor or artist’s identify and never miss out.
Notably, the corporate launched assist for Apple Music earlier this 12 months, including the power to stream music by way of the Apple app with out touching the telephone. It leverages the wearable’s voice-to-search performance to play a track, playlist, album, station, and even artist.
Other New Features
In addition to the Shazam integration, Meta additionally rolled out a Live AI characteristic. Similar to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice With Vision, it grants Meta AI entry to Ray-Ban Meta Glasses’ cameras to watch the video feed in real-time. The chatbot can constantly see the consumer’s environment and reply questions on them. Users can invoke the Meta AI with out the “Hey Meta” command and might even ask follow-up questions.
Further, reside translation has been added to the sensible glasses. It presents real-time speech translation between English and both Spanish, French, or Italian languages. Users can play the translated audio by way of the open-ear audio system and even get a transcription of it.
