- Meta smart glasses will receive v23 update
- It will bring new snow sports statistics to users with Garmin watches
- Other updates improve conversation and translation capabilities.
Meta’s smart glasses are receiving their v23 update right now, and the featured update would have been perfect at the Winter Olympics; It’s a shame it arrived a little late. Nifty improvements to translation and conversation are also on the way.
The most notable update is the new snow sports integration. As a Meta article explains, with the help of a Garmin device, your goggles will be able to tell you about your current ski or snowboard excursion, such as how far you’ve traveled, the top speed of your last run, the steepness of the slope, and your personal bests.
As with running integration, you can also create shareable auto captures that overlay interesting data from key moments onto clips that your smart specs automatically capture.
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As with the Meta glasses’ other fitness features, you’ll need to pair your specs with a compatible Garmin watch, so if you’re relying on a different brand of smart band or don’t have one at all, you’re out of luck. You’ll also want to have your phone in your pocket with the Meta AI app installed and make sure it’s paired to both your watch and your specs.
With all that in place, the next time you hit the slopes, you just need to start a snow sport activity on your Garmin device, and it will start capturing all the data you need and creating a neat automatic capture; Just keep in mind that colder weather will drain your glasses’ battery more quickly than you would normally expect.
New translation tools are also coming to the glasses, if you’re in the early access program. These are Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Swedish and Finnish, and Meta promises more in the future.
Meta translation is possibly the glasses’ least impressive AI feature compared to its rivals, not because of inaccuracies but because the language selection is much less extensive compared to other specifications.
This update should help alleviate some of those current issues; I just wish it reached everyone and not just a select few.
Finally, there is the promise of a more conversational Meta AI. Once you interact with ‘Hey Meta’, you won’t need to continue saying the wake word to keep the conversation flowing, but at the moment this is only if you live in the US or Canada.
Overall, this update is minor, especially since the larger update requires you to have a Garmin device on top of your smart glasses, but hopefully Meta’s renewed AR/AI focus will mean we’ll see bigger improvements in the future.
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