Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

Would you wage $20 a period for entree to AI hardware you already own? That appears to beryllium 1 of Meta's adjacent bets. This week, it softly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus diagnostic volition soon beryllium constricted to 3 hours of usage per month, unless you wage for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription.

In a assistance article, the institution insists that it won't necessitate a subscription to usage your glasses, period; it's simply erecting a "rate limit" for definite AI features. Even premium subscribers volition lone get 15 hours of Conversation Focus per period nether that "rate limit," it claims.

Problem is, Meta's complaint bounds is ridiculous. The Conversatio …

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