- Meta’s smart glasses get update v23
- It will bring new snow sports statistics to users with a Garmin watch
- Other upgrades improve conversation and translation abilities
Meta’s smart glasses are getting their v23 update right now, and the excellent upgrade would have been perfect at the Winter Olympics – it’s a shame it’s landed a little late. Smart translation and conversation improvements are also on the way.
The standout upgrade is new snow sports integration. As a Meta article explains, with the help of a Garmin device, your glasses will be able to tell you about your current skiing or snowboarding excursion — such as how far you’ve traveled, your last run’s top speed, the steepness of the slope and your personal bests.
As with the running integration, you can also create shareable auto-recordings, which overlay interesting data from key moments into clips that your smart specs capture automatically.
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As with Meta’s glasses’ other fitness features, you’ll need to pair your specs with a compatible Garmin watch — so if you’re relying on another brand of smart band or don’t own one at all, you’re out of luck. You’ll also want to have your phone in your pocket with the Meta AI app installed, and make sure it’s paired with both your watch and specs.
With everything ready to go, when you next hit the slopes, just start a snow sports activity on your Garmin device and it will start capturing all the data you need, creating a neat auto-capture – just be aware that colder weather will drain your goggles’ battery faster than you’d normally expect.
New translation tools are also on their way to the glasses – if you are in the early access program. These are Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Swedish and Finnish, with Meta promising more to come.
Meta’s translation is arguably its least impressive AI feature compared to competitors – not because of inaccuracies, but because the language selection is much less wide compared to other specs.
This update should help alleviate these ongoing issues somewhat; I just wish it came to everyone and not just a select few.
Finally, there is the promise of a more conversational Meta AI. Once you engage with ‘Hey Meta’, you don’t need to keep saying the wake word to keep the conversation flowing – but currently that’s only if you live in the US or Canada.
Overall, this update is more minor – especially since the biggest upgrade requires you to own a Garmin device on top of your smart glasses – but hopefully the Meta’s renewed AR/AI focus will mean we see bigger improvements down the line.
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