"Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its smart glasses lineup into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen. The latest model, the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, features a screen in the right lens. It can show text messages, video calls, turn-by-turn directions in maps and visual results from queries to Meta's AI service. The subtly integrated display can also serve as a viewfinder for the camera on a user's phone or surface music playback."
"Speaking at the company's annual Meta Connect event, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's future glasses will be a vehicle for "superintelligence," a term he has adopted to describe advanced artificial intelligence development and the name of a team inside the company. "AI should serve people, not just be something that sits in a data center, automating large parts of society," he said Wednesday from the stage at Meta's Menlo Park, California headquarters."
"In an interview ahead of their launch, Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth called the new glasses "the first serious product" in the space. This launch is a key part of Meta's effort to build its own consumer electronics ecosystem, positioning itself against rivals like Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google. Since debuting its first virtual reality headset in 2016, Meta has aimed to attract users away from the dominant platforms."
Meta launched the $799 Ray-Ban Display smart glasses featuring a built-in screen in the right lens that presents messages, video calls, turn-by-turn directions, AI query results, camera viewfinder functionality and music playback controls. Mark Zuckerberg framed future glasses as a vehicle for "superintelligence" and emphasized that AI should serve people rather than only run in data centers. CTO Andrew Bosworth described the product as the "first serious product" in the category and positioned the launch as part of Meta's effort to build a consumer electronics ecosystem to compete with Apple and Google, aiming to reduce reliance on phones for common tasks.
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