Meta's AI Glasses Are Amazing. Don't Buy Them!

All right. So, this week Meta, you know, Facebook, they announced these super new cool glasses and the presentation for it went well, a few parts of it went super well. For example, this one where they are live broadcasting what Mark Zuckerberg is seeing. He's just literally wearing the glasses and you see like things pop off and that part works. But later on in the conference they are trying to do so many things and it just doesn't work. And to me it is you know a good representation of the stage of this product where they have like super cool hardware because of the parent well or the company that they bought. The hardware is amazing but the software it seems like everything is meta. So it's not like a Google call or like something like this. It's just everything is from meta and it's it's buggy. Many things didn't work and yeah, people are calling it trash, but the hardware looks so impressive. So, with these glasses that are barely heavier than normal glasses, you get 8 hours of uh battery life, right? and you have essentially like a screen in your peripheral vision that is like a colored screen and apparently people can't see it. So this depending on who you ask could be a nightmare like I could be talking to you wearing these and you could not see what I'm looking at. What you could say, you could know that I am looking at something because I'm not focused, you know, on you. So, I'm looking at it. It seems like that I'm zoning out. Oh, there we go. Super nerd over here. Yeah. So, this was missing. This is my Google glasses. I I don't have battery. Oh, I didn't even notice you were wearing Google Glass. I didn't even notice this. I saw for example they tried to make a call just a simple call and it did not work and they tried to do a few things like with AI to to help with um like kitchen stuff with cooking and the guy wasn't even starting and the AI would say well continue I saw that one it was see that one it was brutal to be honest um what I'm really happy about is that the where the tech is because I see okay if they have this by the latest I don't know in a year other companies can pick up on the tech and have like similar things that is not from Meta because I really would I really would love to get these glasses but I probably won't because they are from Meta and I I just can't I don't I don't want to. Um, so I'm I'm waiting for I don't know, maybe Apple, maybe other companies to pick this up and do something cool with it. What is really cool about the software uh well one part of the software is apparently working like super well and that is that uh wristband that uh he's wearing. He has something on his wrist. That is the controller. So this reads the essentially what your brain is sending to your fingers, it reads that and based on those gestures that you make, you can control your headset. So it's not like the one from Apple, the vision pro that looks at your fingers. This one reads the neurons. That is that is insane to think about, you know, and apparently it's it's you give clues uh before you actually move your hand and things like that and it can read those clues so it feels just sort of like slightly ahead of what you want to do because it's Yeah. Yeah. That is cool. Well, uh this is the future, I guess. And one cool thing that I saw about it is apparently you can uh with your fingers you can kind of like hold a pen but not you don't need a pen. You just act like you're holding a pen. Act like you are like you do. Yeah. And you can write things and it knows what you're to write. But I guess really soon or some sometimes there are like uh companies like um what's it called? Neuron link. Neural link that uh there are competitive companies that are reading like your brain waves without uh like the implementation that neural link has without the surgical process. So I guess soon we won't even need that. Maybe I don't know but maybe sometime in the future you can just your glass because it's sitting on your skull somehow maybe could do this. I don't know. I I saw so many like crazy posts about this. People saying like um building crazy crazy apps for this and some people apparently already have. So you can um build an app for example to recognize people and give you like information about them. And what if you build an app that can tell there are apps like this that can tell if a person is lying. So you look at people you can know every information about them. you can tell if they are lying and I don't know the AI gives you red flags I guess um and tells you like everything it's it's just insane on surface level it sounds very scary and dystopian at the same time like we don't know the implications of this and it could be negative first I'm saying here but it also could be very positive in that we are a more you know we we don't lie as much who who wants a who wants a world where everyone's is lying, right? Um there's there's definitely some things you can throw out as a consequence this this tool, this this technology, but meth do a concept glasses about three four months ago. They were big and bulky things and whatever. And it demoed a lot of this technology that they've now managed to and these were beyond comprehension expensive glasses. a lot. The wristband technology for instance, the the the projection technology for instance, that's that's quite miraculous in that the there is a pair of glasses that are very it's basically I think they basically show you basic notifications, whatever. They're a pair of glasses that are publicly available now. You can go buy them. But in certain lights, you can kind of see where isjected. It's like I don't know I don't know whether you've seen matte a matte screen iPad but you can kind of hold it up to the light and around the perimeter you can see the gloss but then on the surface you can see the where it's being you know with it with it anti-glare that's what these glasses are like but it seems like this they've managed to find a way to completely remove any remnants or apparently you can see it in the dark as well you can see it when it's dark that's that's the only caveat here so if or if it's or if you're um you know your your because they're they're interchangeable lenses which a few of them are you can see it then but all that to be said you know it it's cool tech and I will say as well everyone who's bought the previous version of the Ray-B band glasses think they are the best technology released you know last year everyone has loved them particularly families you know when you can when you can play with your kids and you can just you don't have to worry about like pressing record and whatever. Great for all that. Uh they are great. I've put them on, but they're very I find them very uncomfortable. They're very just everything's rigid about them, the frames and everything. I I don't find them comfortable, but people have been very impressed with the version one. This is just now taking it to the next level. But yeah, it's meta. They're soaking up every bit of data they can from you and it's just, you know, these glasses are probably worth 10 times as much, but they sell them to you cheaper. saying that these are $7.99, so they haven't quite subsidized as much as the of version one. Yeah. Yeah. Uh well, yeah. All of that being said, we've come a long way. Uh I'm still holding on to these just as a piece. I can't believe you've got those. That's like iconic. Yeah, this is kind of like a museum right now in my drawer. Yeah, they they work, but just for a couple of minutes, very buggy. It's uh they don't have a software hand like how did you get hold of them? I'm just going to I'm just going to use this camera cuz it's Yeah. Yeah. Well, long story I have to tell you another time. But yeah, I Okay. Um the man. Yeah. But really cool. It's really cool. And with these you do see what the other person is seeing kind of and it's insane that this much like this thickness has changed uh now by a whole lot. Anyway, this is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.