Meta’s smart glasses can now describe what you’re seeing in more detail

A caller diagnostic launching successful the US and Canada makes the Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses much descriptive astir what you’re looking at. | Image: Meta

Meta announced two caller features designed to assistance unsighted oregon debased imaginativeness users by leveraging the Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses’ camera and its entree to Meta AI. The quality came arsenic portion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Rolling retired to each users successful the US and Canada successful the coming weeks, Meta AI tin present beryllium customized to supply much elaborate descriptions of what’s successful beforehand of users erstwhile they inquire the astute adjunct astir their environment. In a short video shared alongside the announcement, Meta AI goes into much item astir the features of a waterside park, including describing grassy areas arsenic being “well manicured.”

The diagnostic tin beryllium activated by turning connected “detailed responses” successful the Accessibility conception of the Device settings successful the Meta AI app. Although it’s presently constricted to users successful the US and Canada, Meta says elaborate responses volition “expand to further markets successful the future,” but provided nary details astir erstwhile oregon which countries would get it next.

First announced past September arsenic portion of a concern with the Be My Eyes enactment and released past November successful a constricted rollout that included the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia, Meta besides confirmed contiguous that its Call a Volunteer diagnostic volition “launch successful each 18 countries wherever Meta AI is supported aboriginal this month.”

Blind and debased imaginativeness users of the Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses tin usage the diagnostic to link to a web of implicit 8 cardinal sighted volunteers and get assistance with mundane tasks specified arsenic pursuing a look oregon locating an point connected a shelf. By saying, “Hey Meta, Be My Eyes,” a unpaid volition beryllium capable to spot a user’s surroundings done a unrecorded provender from the glasses’ camera and tin supply descriptions oregon different assistance done its open-ear speakers.