Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses User Experience
About a month ago, thanks to a recommendation from my friend, I got to know these Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. For the whole month, I've been using the glasses almost every day. In this blog post, I want to share some user experience on this innovative AI product.
Generally speaking, Meta Ray-Ban has a camera, a speaker, a touch bar on the leg for audio control, and an AI system. It comes with an AirPods-like charging case with USB-C, and you can charge your glasses by simply putting them into the charging case. It is a little bit heavier than normal glasses but not that heavy. It's totally fine to wear on a rainy day since I've already tried it. You can find more details down here.
There's a mobile app used to connect the glasses with your phone through Bluetooth to enable all the interactions. For example, the most common use case is to use the glasses as earphones, which means you can use them for phone calls and music. You can use the control panel to adjust the volume and control music playback or talk to the AI to help you do so. However, since the glasses have no noise-cancelling, it might be hard to hear clearly from your glasses in a noisy environment. It also allows me to pay more attention to the surrounding environment. If you keep the volume at an appropriate level, people around you normally won't hear the sound.
Speaking of the camera function, it's really convenient and stable to use it for photos and videos. The small light on the glasses will notify others you're doing the recording. Due to the size of the camera, it doesn't perform well at night, but it's enough for daily use. The video taken by the glasses is vertical, and you can talk to the AI to take the video and upload it to Instagram without operating it on the phone, as well as with photos. The media you've taken can be seen in the Meta View App, and you can choose to import it to your phone in the app or it will automatically do so when the glasses are in the case. Taking videos and importing usually costs more battery. By the way, the maximum length of a single video is currently only 3 minutes. Moreover, using WhatsApp's video call, it's possible to show the view of the glasses camera.
The AI function is similar to ChatGPT, by which I mean you can talk to it and it would answer based on the context. One interesting function is to let AI play a specific song, but it can't tell you the information of the song that is currently playing. Letting the AI describe what it can see through the camera is also cool but kind of useless.
In conclusion, the design of Meta Ray-Ban glasses is great and I really enjoy using the functions it brings, but there's still space for improvement. The first point I believe is to support more languages such as Chinese and Japanese. The second issue is on the battery. Listening to music and taking videos will use up the battery pretty fast, but fortunately, the charging speed is also fast. I'm looking forward to more functionalities and an even better product~
Video is taken by Meta Ray-Ban.
Video is taken by Meta Ray-Ban.