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Meta's assistant on glasses, phones and the web: new features, privacy settings and how it compares with Gemini and ChatGPT.
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Meta AI is the assistant inside Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Meta Glasses and Meta Ray-Ban Display. Here is what it does on each model, which languages and countries get which features, the privacy settings worth knowing, and what changes when Muse arrives.
Smart Glasses
Sens. Ron Wyden and Edward Markey sent Meta a letter on Wednesday asking what it does to protect people captured by its smart glasses, and what it does with that imagery to train AI. 404 Media's report does not include a Meta reply or a deadline.
Analysis
Only one outlet has published a full review of the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) after using it. Gizmodo found longer battery life and adjustable temple tips, but the same camera and audio quality, and calls that didn't sound upgraded.
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Say "Hey Meta", tap and hold the touchpad or, on Gen 3, press the action button to wake Meta AI. Here are the shortcuts, battery saver steps, photo import habits and privacy controls that go with them, with links to our detailed guides.
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Meta lists music, calling, sharing, fitness and accessibility apps for its glasses, and a toolkit for third-party apps is rolling out. Here is what each one does and which glasses and countries it needs.
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Meta's own policies say what its AI glasses collect and send: voice recordings stored by default, photos processed in the cloud when you use Meta AI, and media that may be used to improve its AI. Private Processing, announced for glasses at Connect, has no date yet.
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Hey Meta is a toggle in the Meta AI app, and the touchpad can start Meta AI without it. Here are the menu paths for the wake word, follow-up questions, Meta AI's voice and language, and the other settings that change how it answers.
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When the Meta AI app, formerly Meta View, won't sign in, crashes or can't find your glasses, the fixes start with the account, the phone's permissions and updates. Here are the steps from Meta, Oakley, Ray-Ban and Apple, lightest first.
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Ray-Ban's FAQs name 15 to 18 countries where it sells Ray-Ban Meta, and Meta's help center names 17 where its AI glasses are supported. Here is every country named so far, the 11 markets due later this year and which Meta AI features are limited to the US.
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Meta and EssilorLuxottica now sell three generations of Ray-Ban Meta camera glasses, prescription-first Optics frames and a camera-free Audio line. Here's what each one costs, does and lasts, and how they compare with Oakley Meta and Meta Ray-Ban Display.
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"Hey Meta" is only the start. Here's how to wake Meta AI on your Ray-Ban Meta glasses, ask about what you're looking at, and the commands for photos, calls, music, reminders and translation.
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Your Ray-Ban Meta glasses can translate a conversation as it happens and read signs and menus for you. Here's how to start it, which languages work offline and which need a connection.
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses can place calls, dictate messages and send photos on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and your phone's own calling and texting. Here's how to connect each one and what to say.
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses work like open-ear headphones for anything on your phone, and a handful of services also work by voice. Here's which ones, how to connect them and how much the people around you will hear.
Analysis
Over two days in September, Meta unveiled $1,299.99 VR Glasses, two new Ray-Ban models, cheaper Meta Glasses, hearing enhancement and plans to put its Muse agent on your face. A month later, here is everything it announced, what you can buy today and what is still to come.
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Camera glasses look like ordinary frames, and their recording light is easy to miss. Here's how to tell when someone might be filming, what happens to the images, where the law protects you and what you can do if you'd rather not be recorded.
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Meta AI owns smart glasses, Gemini is on watches, earbuds and a headset with glasses coming, and Siri just got rebuilt for the Apple Watch, AirPods and Vision Pro. Here is what each assistant can actually do on the devices you wear, and which one fits your phone.
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If you own Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Meta Glasses or Meta Ray-Ban Display, the Meta AI app is how you set them up, import your photos and control what Meta stores. It used to be called Meta View. Here is what it does, where its settings live and what changed with the rename.
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When Ray-Ban Meta glasses ignore "Hey Meta," Meta says the usual cause is a voice setting or the microphones in use, and battery saver pauses the wake word entirely. Here are the fixes in order.
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Meta's personal AI agent books, buys and plans on your behalf, and it's headed to the company's glasses "starting next month," according to a Yahoo Finance transcript of Meta's Oct. 21 earnings call. Here is how it differs from Meta AI, what it costs and what's still unknown.
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