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If there was one thing that was obvious from Meta Connect this year, it\u2019s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the glasses were pretty much everywhere at the annual event, where Meta shows off its newest hardware and AI products. Both Meta staff and the flocks of influencers who frequent the event seemed to arrive with the glasses glued to their faces. Most of the demos the company offered this week also involved the glasses.<\/p>\n

I swiftly joined the bespectacled masses and found myself trying on pair after pair of Meta\u2019s high-tech specs.<\/p>\n

One of the more notable products I had an opportunity to demo were Meta\u2019s new, still-unreleased, audio-only smart glasses<\/a>. News of these glasses emerged not long after the company weathered accusations that it was selling \u201cpervert glasses,\u201d<\/a> with critics alleging that its camera-equipped specs could be used for nefarious surveillance purposes.<\/p>\n

The new glasses come equipped with six microphones, but no camera, and they have no native way to record your surroundings, which should go a long way toward easing privacy concerns. They are significantly lighter than any of the other smart glasses I\u2019ve worn, and they were quite comfortable.<\/p>\n

The Meta staffer I talked to emphasized the glasses\u2019 entertainment and communication options: You can listen to music easily (they\u2019re more comfortable than earbuds) and take phone calls without reaching for your phone.<\/p>\n

The glasses will also integrate with Muse, Meta\u2019s personal agentic system, which can carry out tasks on the user\u2019s behalf. The new integration, which isn\u2019t yet available to the public, lets wearers speak to Muse and give it commands verbally. Meta also plans to personalize the agent, letting users pick from an assortment of cute digital avatars that can represent the agent when it communicates with them.<\/p>\n

I was given an opportunity to try this out, which was fun but also somewhat comical. You have to be very direct with the agent, and you can\u2019t talk to anyone else at the same time or it will get confused. Problematically, I kept chatting intermittently with the Meta staffer who\u2019d given me the glasses, and the agent kept thinking I was speaking to it, so it would talk over her.<\/p>\n

Still, in the right context, it\u2019s easy to see how this new integration could be incredibly useful. If you don\u2019t mind being seen in public talking to your own sunglasses, you\u2019ll be able to ask Muse to take care of various digital tasks for you, like sending emails or reciting to-do lists, and it will handle them while you\u2019re out grocery shopping or having a beer. You can also ask the glasses anything, and like a mobile version of ChatGPT, they\u2019ll spit out an answer. (I asked the glasses a question about World War II, and they gave me a succinct and historically accurate response.)<\/p>\n

Finally, I also got to test-drive a second audio-only pair: Meta\u2019s new glasses for the hearing impaired. Given that hearing loss affects many families (some 50 million Americans are said to have some level of hearing loss), this device, unlike a lot of other modern tech gadgets, serves a clear and practical purpose.<\/p>\n

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I spoke briefly with a member of Meta\u2019s research team who said the glasses had been in development for about five years, and he pointed out a price difference that could make them appealing: Whereas a lot of hearing aids can run as high as $1,600, the glasses will sell for $150.<\/p>\n

The experience of wearing these glasses was interesting. Meta had me put earplugs in before trying them on to simulate the hearing loss that the glasses are meant to help users overcome. Once the glasses were on, they seemed to amplify the voice of the person I was talking to. Users can switch the amplification from focused, which zeroes in on the person in front of them, to omnidirectional, which picks up sound from all around them, depending on how they want to experience their surroundings.<\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that he believes smart glasses are the future, and it\u2019s evident that his company is doing its best to fulfill that vision. But smart glasses remain a niche that has yet to truly find its footing. What was most obvious at Connect is that Meta has \u2014 in an attempt to succeed where others have failed \u2014 cast a very wide net, trying to make its glasses stylish, functional, and, most of all, useful.<\/p>\n

Is this the future? Unsurprisingly, everyone at Connect seemed to think so. I suppose we\u2019ll have to see if the rest of the world follows suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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