Meta Glasses Nova (Gen 3) Review: Not Much New

The camera lodging connected my Meta Nova glasses is smaller than connected the Gen 2 glasses. From a distance, they mightiness adjacent work arsenic rivets astatine a glance. (I asked my workfellow Reece Rogers however they looked connected my face, and from a fewer feet distant successful the WIRED office, helium didn’t adjacent announcement they were camera-enabled glasses astatine first.)

They consciousness and relation the aforesaid arsenic before. You tin interact with an AI adjunct oregon drawback photos and video with the property of a button. Conversation Focus, a mode that helps hard-of-hearing radical amended prime up spoken words, is simply a diagnostic that lone works successful aboriginal entree connected Meta’s Ray-Ban and Oakley astute glasses. It seems precise helpful, but my Meta-designed frames don’t person it yet.

They besides don’t person integration with Meta’s Muse AI, which the institution says is coming aboriginal this year. I’m intrigued by that, adjacent if having entree to a camera connected your look volition surely assistance a work that seems amended astatine surveilling than helping its users. That said, I’ve recovered Muse much utile than Meta’s existent AI assistant, and I look guardant to asking my entirely excessively cute AI buddy to assistance maine via my glasses.

Unfortunately, Meta’s existent AI adjunct connected the glasses is inactive terrible. I tried to inquire what features the glasses I was wearing had, and it failed miserably. The AI couldn’t get immoderate of the details right, adjacent erstwhile I told it specifically which frames I was wearing and fto it drawback a representation of the Meta merchandise leafage for reference. I wouldn’t privation to beryllium connected the AI to assistance maine benignant retired thing with immoderate existent complexity.

If you beauteous overmuch disregard the AI entirely, the Gen 3 glasses bash conscionable astir everything Meta promises. They seizure bully photos and video, each portion maintaining an indicator airy that has precocious been made much tamper-proof. (That’s not needfully capable to deter the creeps.) The frames are wearable, and the bundle is competent enough. They’re besides pricey, truthful possibly you tin prevention immoderate currency sticking with the Gen 2. They’ll each bash what you astir apt expect them to do. Just possibly don’t beryllium weird astir it, each right?