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Meta’s long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses’ 12 MP camera and microphone. The company proclaimed late Tuesday that these new AI-vision features are now available in beta. There’s a whole lot of utility for a mobile AI that can see and hear, but leave it to Meta’s leadership to show off the new feature in the most awkward and trite way possible.'Even AI Rappers are…

June Wan/ZDNETWhen Meta first launched its Ray-Ban smart glassesThe functionality goes beyond the usual "What is this building?" or "What's the weather like today?" prompts, of course, as Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, demoed in an Instagram reel. In the video, Zuckerberg asks Meta AI, "Look and tell me what pants to wear with this shirt." as he holds up a rainbow-striped button-down. Not only does the voice assistant identify the apparel, but it suggests pairing it with dark-washed jeans or solid-colored trousers. (The…

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are about to get some powerful upgrades thanks to improvements to the social network’s AI assistant. The company is finally for real-time information to the onboard assistant, and it’s starting to test new “multimodal” capabilities that allow it to answer questions based on your environment.Up to now, Meta AI had a “knowledge cutoff” of December 2022, so it couldn’t answer questions about current events, or things like game scores, traffic conditions or other queries that would be…

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends When Apple announced its overtly expensive Vision Pro AR headset, arguably its biggest promise had little to do with hardware. The company says “hundreds and thousands of iPhone and iPad apps” run well on Vision OS, and they will be ready to boot on the Vision Pro on launch day. Apple made an ever bigger promise to developers. “By default, your iPad and/or iPhone apps will be published automatically on the App Store on Apple Vision Pro,” the company said. That’s akin to solving the…

June Wan/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysI'd recommend the Viture One XR glasses, and instead of transmitting you into a virtual or augmented reality like Apple's new Vision Pro headset, these wearables simply extend from -- and are powered by -- the source they're connected to, serving as an ultraportable, on-your-face monitor. Oh, and they cost $439 a popZDNET RECOMMENDS Viture One XR Glasses These extended-reality glasses can display a 120-inch projection of the software they're tethered to. To be clear, comparing the…

Do you wear glasses? Are you sick of the “nerd” emoji meme popping up on your social media? One 10-year-old from Peppard, Oxfordshire, in the UK, wants to change Apple’s “nerd” emoji to save glasses wearers everywhere.Type “nerd” into your Messages app, and your iPhone’s keyboard will prompt an emoji with glasses and two huge front teeth. 10-year-old Teddy has started a petition to raise awareness and get Apple to change the emoji.Speaking to the BBC, Teddy said, "We want to change this - Apple is making it absolutely…

Samsung teased earlier this year that it is working on an XR (Mixed Reality) “experience” in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. It is rumored to be an XR headset, similar to the Apple Vision Pro. However, it is far from an actual launch, and some rumors indicate that it could be launched in late 2024 in limited quantities. But that's not the only wearable device the company is working on. It appears to be working on smart glasses, too. Samsung Glasses could be the company's first AR smart glasses The South Korean…

Tempted by the future offered by the Apple Vision Pro, but not sure you want to drop $3,499 on a headset without testing the waters first? Then this Black Friday AR glasses deal may be the one for you.I had the privilege a few weeks back to give the TCL RayNeo Air 2 smart glasses a spin, and it gave me a renewed sense of enthusiasm for an AR-driven future where we've all got screens attached to our faces.If you'd like to test-drive the future of computing too, you can get the smart glasses at an 8% discount from Amazon…

June Wan/ZDNETWhat's the Black Friday deal?For a limited time, Viture is discounting the One XR Glasses by $50, and instead of transmitting you into a virtual or augmented reality like Apple's new Vision Pro headset, these wearables simply extend from -- and are powered by -- the source they're connected to, serving as an ultraportable, on-your-face monitor. Oh, and they cost $439 a popZDNET RECOMMENDS Viture One XR Glasses These extended-reality glasses can display a 120-inch projection of the software they're…

The Toyota Fortuner is one of those SUVs that boasts a massive fan base. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it’s one of those SUVs that has no haters. Like many Toyota products, the Fortuner is popular among buyers for its exceptional reliability. Several examples of the Toyota Fortuner, with odometers clocking up lakhs of kilometers, have been featured on our website. In most cases, the owners are content with the product and haven’t found anything compelling enough to prompt an upgrade or a switch. Consequently, what…