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đź‘“ AI gets personal: Ray-Ban Meta glasses now describe what you see

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Piyush Singh
May 20, 2025

Welcome back, explorers.

We’ve talked about AI assistants, but what if one lived inside your glasses?

Last week, Meta announced a new AI feature for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, and it's a powerful leap forward. Lets talk about it today.

 đź”ĄToday’s big AI story

AI gets personal: Ray-Ban Meta glasses now describe what you see

Image - Meta/The Sun

With the latest update, these glasses can now use Meta AI's multimodal capabilities to understand and describe what the wearer is seeing - in real-time.

🗣️ Ask: “What am I looking at?”
🤖 AI responds with a description of the object, place, or scene - right in your ear.

🧠 How It Works

This update is built on Meta’s multimodal LLM, which combines vision and language.
The glasses now feature:

  • Scene description: Identifies and explains what’s in your view.

  • Text reading: Reads signs, menus, or labels aloud.

  • Landmark recognition: Tells you what you're looking at when you travel.

  • Conversational search: You can talk to your glasses like a voice assistant.

All of this happens without needing to reach for your phone - it’s a true step toward ambient AI.

“This is the first product that truly delivers on the promise of multimodal AI,” said Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.

🚀 Why This Is a Big Deal

  • Accessibility: Life-changing for users with visual impairments.

  • Productivity: Faster access to information while on the go.

  • Natural UX: AI that feels intuitive — no typing, tapping, or swiping.

  • AI + AR Merge: A hint at the future convergence of intelligent eyewear and AR.

🧭 What’s Next?

Meta has hinted at even more features to come — like translation, contextual assistance, and object recognition. These smart glasses could soon become the interface through which we navigate both digital and physical worlds.

Key takeaway:

🧠AI is leaving the screen and entering our senses. This isn't just wearable tech. It's wearable intelligence.

đź“° Other AI and Tech roundup for today

🤖 OpenAI’s GPT-4o stuns with voice, vision & speed
GPT-4o is now multimodal, handling voice, image, and text in real time. This changes the game for how we interact with AI.

🤖 Google’s Veo AI creates HD videos from prompts
At Google I/O, the company announced Veo - a new tool to create high-quality videos from simple text descriptions.

🤖 Runway ML brings real-time video editing to creators
Runway’s latest update enables AI-assisted editing, background changes, and motion tracking — all in your browser.

🤖 Anthropic’s Claude gets upgraded with memory
Claude AI now remembers past conversations — making it smarter and more personalized for regular users.

And that’s a wrap for today!

Thank you for reading. Stay tuned for more!

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