#Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses Review

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Introduction

Smart glasses have become synonymous with cutting-edge technology, seamlessly blending the digital and physical worlds. In this review, we delve into the realm of innovation with a focus on the Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses, exploring their design, functionality, and user experience.

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When Will the UK Receive Full Meta Ray-Ban Features?

The Meta Ray-Ban glasses, blending wearable technology with stylish eyewear, have captured global attention since their launch. Positioned as smart glasses designed to enhance daily life, they promise innovative features like augmented reality integration, AI assistance, and a seamless connection between the digital and physical worlds. However, for users in the UK, the experience has been…

[kylelowe]

they're pretty cool, but are they worth the privacy trade offs?

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first image id: tweet which reads "NEW YORK POST @nypost Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: 'You can now film everyone without them knowing' trib.al/6UQSYSW 6:59 AM 9/28/23 from Earth 1.3M Views"

second image id: tumblr post which reads "millenianthemums: i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick iwasrightaboutthesun: Modern day Medusa"

⤴️ FYI i know this is presented as a joke but the headline alarmed me so i looked into it & here's my notes:

NYP aint a great source by a long shot. I'm no fan of being photographed in public but this headline is misleading. As explained by the Washington Post:

"Meta has made some notable, if perhaps not always noticeable, tweaks. The company says, for instance, that the new glasses have a larger white indicator light that now blinks when recording or streaming - a change meant to make it more clear to bystanders when they're on camera.

And if some unscrupulous jerk tried to cover up that indicator-say, with a piece of tape - the glasses are designed to "prevent the camera from working," said Li-Chen Miller, Meta's vice president of product for smart glasses. If someone tries, she added, the companion app on their smartphone will specifically tell them to remove the obstruction.

& in a review from Mashable:

I joke that the Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have a spy element to them, but I own a pair myself and they light up while you're recording video and taking pictures.

so basically you won't be able to tell whether you're being filmed if you're 1. blind or 2. not looking but if you aren't either of those things then congrats. anyway someone do the brick thing itll be funny

It’s time.

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Ahmedbad Airport-Walkin Tour with Ray-Ban Meta

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Weekly Review 11 October 2024

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):

I think it is going to become very easy for police to blame their own errors or manipulations on mistakes made by the AI. And when the AI does mess up, where does the responsibility lie? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/03/artificial-intelligence-police-reports

Companies are shifting their AI data centres to Texas, but Texas doesn't have the generating capacity to satisfy their energy demands: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/04/texas_dc_power/

A fortnight after California's law banning AI generated fakes during elections was signed into law, a judge has blocked it: https://dataconomy.com/2024/10/03/judge-slams-californias-ai-deepfake-law/

The five AI companies being prosecuted for making misleading claims about what their' technologies can do: https://dataconomy.com/2024/09/30/ftc-cracks-down-on-five-ai-companies/

Meta's AI glasses will use your queries to train its AI, and you can't opt out: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/meta-will-train-its-ai-enabled-eyeglasses-on-stuff-you-ask-it-to-analyze

Sometimes simpler models are better than more complex models in AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/do-we-really-need-more-complex-models

Is regulation needed to prevent AI companies just taking the images of deceased family members and using them as the faces of AI? https://dataconomy.com/2024/10/03/dont-allow-ai-to-profit-from-the-pain-and-grief-of-families/

We struggle to define intelligence, defining artificial general intelligence is going to be even harder: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/03/even-the-godmother-of-ai-has-no-idea-what-agi-is/

AI assists in making products recyclable: https://www.informationweek.com/sustainability/ai-dials-up-circularity

Some jobs are more likely to be replaced by AI in the near-term than others: https://www.datanami.com/2024/09/27/how-genai-will-impact-jobs-in-the-real-world/

Responsible AI must include clear rules around the ownership of data: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/a-user-centric-approach-to-responsible-ai/

Computers with embedded AI hardware are coming, and Intel has released a new software tool to help familiarise people with the technology: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-updates-its-ai-playground-software-for-intel-powered-ai-pcs

You don't need the cutting-edge tech to develop decent AI models, as China has demonstrated: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/china_telecom_model_trained_local_tech/

The contribution of AI to eLearning: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-shaping-elearning/

Ways Google's AI-powered notebook can help you: https://dataconomy.com/2024/10/01/creative-ways-to-use-google-notebook-lm/

Was the California AI safety bill really that flawed? And is anything going to replace it? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/newsom-veto-kills-california-ai-safety-bill

More ways wearable AI can be misused-instantly doxing someone: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy

Tertiary students' attitudes to AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2024/10/03/are-ai-skills-key-part-career-preparation

OpenAI is demanding exclusivity from its invectors. So they can invest in one AI company but not any others? https://www.computerworld.com/article/3544921/openai-demands-investors-shun-rivals-such-as-anthropic-elon-musks-xai.html

Optimising database performance to support AI operations: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/large-ai-apps-optimizing-the-databases-behind-the-scenes/

The environmental impact of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/02/french-ai-summit-environmental-impact-energy-hungry-tech

Text mining in the R language: https://www.kdnuggets.com/how-to-use-r-for-text-mining

AI is not ready for use as a sysadmin: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/ai_agent_trashes_pc/

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Meta AI’s Big Announcements

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Meta AI’s Big Announcements

New AR glasses, Llama 3.2 and more.

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📝 Editorial: Meta AI’s Big Announcements

Meta held its big conference, *Connect 2024*, last week, and AI was front and center. The two biggest headlines from the conference were the launch of the fully holographic Orion AI glasses, which represent one of the most important products in Meta’s ambitious and highly controversial AR strategy. In addition to the impressive first-generation Orion glasses, Meta announced that the company is developing a new brain-computer interface for the next version.

The other major release at the conference was Llama 3.2, which includes smaller language models of sizes 1B and 3B, as well as larger 11B and 90B vision models. This is Meta’s first major attempt to open source image models, signaling its strong commitment to open-source generative AI. Additionally, Meta AI announced the Llama Stack, which provides standard APIs in areas such as inference, memory, evaluation, post-training, and several other aspects required in Llama applications. With this release, Meta is transitioning Llama from isolated models to a complete stack for building generative AI apps.

There were plenty of other AI announcements at *Connect 2024*:

Meta introduced voice capabilities to its Meta AI chatbot, allowing users to have realistic conversations with the chatbot. This feature puts Meta AI on par with its competitors, like OpenAI and Google, which have already introduced voice modes to their products.

Meta announced an AI-powered, real-time language translation feature for its Ray-Ban smart glasses. This feature will allow users to translate text from Spanish, French, and Italian by the end of the year.

Meta is developing an AI feature for Instagram and Facebook Reels that will automatically dub and lip-sync videos into different languages. This feature is currently in testing in the US and Latin America.

Meta is adding AI image generation features to Facebook and Instagram. The new feature will be similar to existing AI image generators, such as Apple’s Image Playground, and will allow users to share AI-generated images with friends or create posts.

It was an impressive week for Meta AI, to say the least.

🔎 ML Research

AlphaProteo

Google DeepMind published a paper introducing AlphaProteo, a new family of model for protein design. The model is optimized for novel, high strength proteins that can improve our understanding of biological processes —> Read more.

Molmo and PixMo

Researchers from the Allen Institute for AI published a paper detailing Molmo and Pixmo, an open wegit and open data vision-language model(VLM). Molmo showcased how to train VLMs from scratch while Pixmo is the core set of datasets used during training —> Read more.

Instruction Following Without Instruction Tuning

Researchers from Stanford University published a paper detailing a technique called implicit instruction tuning that surfaces instruction following behaviors without explicity fine tuning the model. The paper also suggests some simple changes to a model distribution that can yield that implicity instruction tuning behavior —> Read more.

Robust Reward Model

Google DeepMind published a paper discussing some of the challenges of traditional reward models(RMs) to identify preferences in prompt indepdendent artifacts. The paper introduces the notion of robust reward model(RRM) that addresses this challenge and shows great improvements in models like Gemma —> Read more.

Real Time Notetaking

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University published a paper outlining NoTeeline, a real time note generation method for video streams. NoTeeline generates micronotes that capture key points in a video while maintaining a consistent writing style —> Read more.

AI Watermarking

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University published a paper evaluating different design choices in LLM watermarking. The paper also studies different attacks that result in the bypassing or removal of different watermarking techniques —> Read more.

🤖 AI Tech Releases

Llama 3.2

Meta open sourced Llama 3.2 small and medium size models —> Read more.

Llama Stack

As part of the Llama 3.2 release, Meta open sourced the Llama Stack, a series of standarized building blocks to develop Llama-powered applications —> Read more.

Gemini 1.5

Google released two updated Gemini models and new pricing and performance tiers —> Read more.

Cohere APIs

Cohere launched a new set of APIs that improve its experience for developers —> Read more.

🛠 Real World AI

Data Apps at Airbnb

Airbnb discusses Sandcastle, an internal framework that allow data scientists rapidly protype data driven apps —> Read more.

Feature Caching at Pinterest

The Pinterest engineering team discusses its internal architecture for feature caching in AI recommender systems —> Read more.

📡AI Radar

Meta introduced Orion, its very impressive augmented reality glasses.

James Cameron joined Stability AI’s Board of Directors.

The OpenAI soap opera continues with the resignation of their long time CTO and rumours of shifting its capped profit status.

OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer also resigned this week.

Letta, one of the most anticipated startups from UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, just came out of stealth mode with a $10 million round.

Image model platform Black Forest Labs is closing a new $100 million round.

Google announced a new $120 million fund dedicated to AI education.

Airtable unveiled a new suite of AI capabilities.

Enterprise AI startup Ensemble raised $3.3 million to improve the data quality problem for building models.

Microsoft unveiled its Trustworthy AI initiative.

Runway plans to allocate $5 million for producing AI generated films.

Data platform Airbyte can now create connectors directly from the API documentation.

Skills intelligence platform Workera unveiled a new agent that can assess, develop adn verify skills.

Convergence raised $12 million for building AI agents with long term memory.

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The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Full Review

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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review: Better in every way | Tom's Guide

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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses II Review: A Stylish Camera for Your Face

I must admit, reviewing the new Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses is something I never thought I would be doing. I was excited to give them a try though, and hey, they do have a camera in them after all.

Personally, I was impressed with the benefits that these glasses can provide. I can see them being a useful alternative to earbuds and I especially find them useful as a hands-free action camera while fly fishing. Still, I don’t see them being something I would personally invest in and I think that is because they are a very lifestyle-dependent purchase. If you want a hands-free solution to earbuds and don’t want to pull out your phone to take pictures and record memories it could be a fun piece of gear to consider. Otherwise, your phone and earbuds are something you already have and the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are a luxury solution in search of a problem.

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Meta Ray Ban Smartglasses have been in the wild long enough for adequate stress tests and reactions from the hardware pros. We round up our favorite reviews and chime in with broader market position analysis. This post appeared first on AR Insider #AR #VR #Metaverse

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Tosuny Smart Sunglasses

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Meta Ray Ban Smartglasses have been in the wild long enough for adequate stress tests and reactions from the hardware pros. We round up our favorite reviews and chime in with broader market position analysis. This post appeared first on AR Insider #AR #VR #Metaverse

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Meta Ray Ban Smartglasses have been in the wild long enough for adequate stress tests and reactions from the hardware pros. We round up our favorite reviews and chime in with broader market position analysis. This post appeared first on AR Insider #AR #VR #Metaverse