The latest Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta smart glasses update is rolling out, and the v21 adds two powerful audio tools to the specs that I can’t wait to try.
The first is the first that was teased back at Meta Connect 2025: Conversation Focus.
Coming today to people in the early access program (limited to users in the US and Canada), the feature is designed to help you better hear people while chatting in a noisy room.
Using this feature, Meta promises that your glasses’ microphones can pick up what the person you’re chatting with is saying, isolate their words from the noise of a DJ set, the clatter of cutlery on plates in a busy restaurant, or the noise of commuters on the train (among others), and then play their voice through your glasses’ speakers.
Just note that as an early access too, l Conversational Focus probably won’t work perfectly out of the gate.
Soundtrack your view
The second audio upgrade is coming to a wider range of users, although you’ll need to use Spotify to take advantage of it.
If you have the music streaming service connected to your Meta account, you can use your glasses’ look and ask feature to soundtrack what you see – whether it’s playing music from an album cover you’ve seen in the wild, or just want to listen to tracks that match your current view.
Just say something like “Hey Meta, play a song to match this view.” Spotify will then use its library and understanding of your music tastes to soundtrack your life.
I use Apple Music over Spotify, but this feature tempts me to switch to the rival music streaming service. Sounds like it could be a lot of fun to try.
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