Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced on Wednesday that the internet giant is integrating artificial intelligence into smart glasses and digital assistants in an effort to regain lost ground in the AI race.
Meta putting AI in smart glasses: At the Connect developers conference, the company’s biggest annual product event, held at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Meta, Zuckerberg made his announcements.
Zuckerberg opened the meeting by saying that “advances in AI allow us to create different (applications) and personas that help us accomplish different things.”
And someday, smart glasses will enable us to combine all of this into a fashionable form factor that we can wear.
One of the various ways that tech companies have attempted to develop devices that are more user-friendly than smartphones is with smart glasses, but thus far with little success.
On October 17, the second version of the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that were created in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica will go on sale for $299.
“Meta Unveils Smart Glasses with AI Assistants and Personalized AI Characters”
According to Zuckerberg, the smart glasses also provide users the option to stream what they are seeing in real time.
The best form factor for you to let AI helpers see and hear what you’re seeing and hearing is through smart glasses.
Additionally, Meta developed 28 AI characters with “personalities” based on famous persons, such as Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and YouTube sensation MrBeast, that users may communicate on WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.
Zuckerberg promised that the new bots would soon have voices as he typed out a chat on stage in which he interacted with one of these AIs.
This is our initial attempt to teach some AI that are a little bit more entertaining, Zuckerberg stated.
You will discover these still have many restrictions while using them, but look, this is early work.
“Attendees eagerly anticipated announcements regarding generative AI at the first in-person Connect event since the 2019 epidemic.”
In contrast to its competitors Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google, Meta has adopted a far more cautious approach to releasing AI products, prioritising tiny advances and making its internal models available to developers and researchers.
“Best price”
A presentation for AFP showed that Meta also unveiled the most recent iteration of their Quest virtual reality headgear, which has sharper graphics, better audio, and the capability for a wearer to see what is around them without taking the gear off.
Zuckerberg told developers gathering in the courtyard of Meta’s headquarters, “This is going to be a big game changer and a big capacity improvement for these headsets.”
According to Meta, Quest 3 headsets will start selling on October 10 with prices starting at $499.
This is far less expensive than Apple’s Vision Pro, which will set you back a whopping $3,499 when it goes on sale early the following year, solely in the United States.
For a very long time to come, the Quest 3 “is going to be the best value on the market,” declared Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth to the audience’s amusement.
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Nexus and a Roblox game were among the new games for Quest 3.
According to Insider Intelligence lead analyst Yory Wurmser, Meta is attempting to make (mixed-reality) far more advanced and accessible to the general public.
We believe that mixed reality is a significant improvement over virtual reality, which is essentially a wholly veiled experience, according to Cox.
That will contribute to this being more helpful to more people.