Wait... Smart Glasses are Suddenly Good?
Meta Ray-Ban Display: The Shocking Evolution from 10-Month Prototype.
Discover how Meta leapfrogged from a cumbersome, $10k AR prototype to a refined consumer product in under a year. Learn the specific advanced features now available in the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.
Short Summary
- Meta’s new glasses feature a sharp monocular display viewable clearly outdoors, achieving 5,000 nits brightness.
- The integrated wrist-worn neural band executes precise text input via mid-air drawing gestures using surface EMG.
- The product ships self-contained in a stylish, folding, multi-charge charging case for $800.
This review compares the new Meta Ray-Ban Display against the previous Orion AR prototype, emphasizing the incredible speed of technological iteration displayed in the final product features and daily usability improvements, despite platform limitations.
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Top Comments (10)
In a few years, we will have ads and sponsored posts right in front of our eyes.
Only thing holding these things back is the fact they are tied to Meta. They are so close.
This is incredible! Now Meta can get data on everything in your entire house and then directly serve you ads for paper towels when they see you are out.
I would've been so excited about this 15 years ago. Now it seems dystopian as hell.
As a member of the deaf community I would've never thought there would be a time where I can have in real life captions for conversations. Spent 28 years reading lips and hitting folks with the "yeah thats crazy"
The accessibility it will bring for deaf people is incredible. And I'm really hyped for a new generation of wearables that will come in the next years.
This will be a hit for the ASL community for the subtitles.
Sometimes I think these tech innovators watched 10 minutes of a Black Mirror episode and never saw how it ended
Now I just need these to be made by anyone but Meta
This was a childhood dream, now we need an option to display the opponent's strength number.
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Top Comments (10)
In a few years, we will have ads and sponsored posts right in front of our eyes.
Only thing holding these things back is the fact they are tied to Meta. They are so close.
This is incredible! Now Meta can get data on everything in your entire house and then directly serve you ads for paper towels when they see you are out.
I would've been so excited about this 15 years ago. Now it seems dystopian as hell.
As a member of the deaf community I would've never thought there would be a time where I can have in real life captions for conversations. Spent 28 years reading lips and hitting folks with the "yeah thats crazy"
The accessibility it will bring for deaf people is incredible. And I'm really hyped for a new generation of wearables that will come in the next years.
This will be a hit for the ASL community for the subtitles.
Sometimes I think these tech innovators watched 10 minutes of a Black Mirror episode and never saw how it ended
Now I just need these to be made by anyone but Meta
This was a childhood dream, now we need an option to display the opponent's strength number.