Meta Rolls Out Live Translations To All Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Users

Meta has expanded both the feature set and availability of its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Notable updates include live translation with offline support through downloadable language packs, the ability to send messages and make calls via Instagram, and conversations with Meta AI based on real-time visual context. The Verge reports: Live translation was first teased at Meta Connect 2024 last October, and saw a limited rollout through Meta's Early Access Program in select countries last December. Starting today it's getting a wider rollout to all the markets where the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are available. You can hold a conversation with someone who speaks English, French, Italian, or Spanish, and hear a real-time translation through the smart glasses in your preferred language. If you download a language pack in advance, you can use the live translations feature without Wi-Fi or access to a cellular network, making it more convenient to use while traveling abroad.

Meta also highlighted a few other features that are still enroute or getting an expanded release. Live AI, which allows the Meta AI smart assistant to continuously see what you do for more natural conversations is now "coming soon to general availability in the US and Canada." The ability to "send and receive direct messages, photos, audio calls, and video calls from Instagram on your glasses," similar to functionality already available through WhatsApp, Messenger, and iOS and Android's native messaging apps, is coming soon as well. Access to music apps like Spotify, Amazon Music, Shazam, and Apple Music is starting to expand beyond the US and Canada, Meta says. However, asking Meta AI to play music, or for more information about what you're listening to, will still only be available to those with their "default language is set to English."

Universal Translator

[OrangAsm]

...brought to you by douche.

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[ndsurvivor]

worse, a spy who will sell your info to anybody and use any info to manipulate you.

How can I have a conversation with someone

[fredrated]

that speaks French? The glasses will help me understand them but I can't reply unless they have the glasses. Do I carry an extra pair to hand a person I want to speak to?

Re: How can I have a conversation with someone

[LindleyF]

There are apps for that now. It's kind of incredible. Translation is one thing LLMs are really good at.

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[sound+vision]

I think their dream is to have you wear the glasses, the other guy wear the glasses, and the glasses converse with each other in Ai'lish and translate back to you both.

That way you have total dependence on them to communicate with anyone.

How it can work

[SuperKendall]

The glasses will help me understand them but I can't reply unless they have the glasses.

I can see two paths for how it could work:

1) You whisper an answer, and the glasses show you your words translated back, along with feeding you an audio of the text so you can speak the response out loud. A bit awkward but the person you are speaking to would get the idea pretty quickly and accept the delay.

2) AI comes up with a response for you based on the goal of the conversation, which you've already laid out ahead

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[dfghjk]

It could emit brain waves that cause you to involuntarily speak in a language you do not know, communicating what you desire to say but otherwise cannot. "Now I have no idea if it does work this way, but It could."

But we do really "have an idea", it doesn't work this way, nor does it work in the ways this lifetime apologist has imagined. It simply doesn't work at all. To have a conversation, two devices are required. Duh.

Remember when SuperKendall was the dumbest poster on /.? Now there's a whole army o

"Dumb cyberpunk"

[jacks smirking reven]

This is like potentially real deal science fiction shit and we should be excited but this is a pretty dumb timeline and we don't get the cool dystopian corporate overlords like Weyland-Yutani or Arasaka we get the company our parents use to send messages and get crazy conspiracies from. I mean Meta is bad enough that I found myself saying "maybe I'll just wait for Apple or Google to come out with this"

And you know this is gonna come with some horrible catch, like every translation Zuckerberg takes a hot mea

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[martin-boundary]

In *real* science fiction, people wouldn't wear luxury brand sunglasses for translations. They'd have some kind of slippery water dweller enter one of two orifices that are specialized for high precision sound detection.

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[JamesTRexx]

Actually, for cyberpunk it would be a cheap USA plastic frame with German screen glasses, Japanese electronics, and the illegally enhanced software from an Argentinian hacker.

ObPython

[rossdee]

My hovercraft is full of eels

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[unami]

Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy, bouncy?

Ray-Ban smart glasses only good til ......

[bsdetector101]

Ray-Ban smart glasses only good til support is dropped !