Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg speaks during Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California. AFP
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the tech giant is putting artificial intelligence into digital assistants and smart glasses as it seeks to gain lost ground in the AI race.
Zuckerberg made his announcements at the Connect developers conference at Meta’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, the company’s main annual product event.
“Advances in AI allow us to create different (applications) and personas that help us accomplish different things,” Zuckerberg said as he kicked off the gathering.
“And smart glasses are going to eventually allow us to bring all of this together into a stylish form factor that we can wear.”
Smart glasses are one of the many ways that tech companies have tried to move beyond the smartphone as a user-friendly device, but so far with little success.
The second-generation Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses made in a partnership with EssilorLuxottica will have a starting price of $299 when they hit the market on October 17.
The smart glasses also add the ability for users to stream what they are seeing in real time, Zuckerberg said.
Am attendee tries a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta’s Connect developer conference in Menlo Park. AP
“Smart glasses are the ideal form factor for you to let AI assistants see what you’re seeing and hear what you’re…
