To augment the non-display experience, Meta's Ray-Ban glasses pair with the Meta View app, which allows you to view pictures or get information about your glasses. The extended app experience works fine but makes the Ray-Ban glasses feel less like a standalone gadget and more like a smartphone accessory.

Though users will be able to get notifications from Meta's AI assistant as soon as 2025, it may 'be years' until Meta starts offering a full augmented reality experience like Apple's Vision Pro.

The upcoming Ray-Ban smart glasses will reportedly feature similar 'in-lens' displays as Meta's Orion prototype for augmented reality experiences.

The Ray-Ban smart glasses from Meta get AI vision, live language translation and Shazam integration in a software update rolling out to Early Access members.

The latest update adds video to Meta's AI chatbot assistant, which allows the smart glasses to process what the user is seeing and respond to questions.

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are getting smarter thanks to an update that's introducing three features, including new AI functionality. In an announcement this week, Meta said the features are coming soon to its smart glasses.

Orion augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have the potential to revolutionize portable personal computing, but the product faces