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“Hey Meta!” The glasses woke up with the short phrase. Then, I looked down and asked how many calories were in the plate of food in front of me. For two or three seconds, nothing much happened. Then a voice came through the open-ear speaker built into the frame. It picked up a croissant, an egg, milk and salad, then offered a rough calorie estimate.
There was no phone in hand — just a spoken command and an answer through the glasses. The small moment neatly sums up Meta’s pitch for AI glasses. Officially launched in Korea on May 25, Meta’s AI glasses were developed with EssilorLuxottica under the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta lineups. Both lines carry cameras, microphones and speakers inside frames that still mostly look like regular eyewear.
At a hands-on event in Seoul, Meta Korea Country Director Kim Jin-ah said glasses offer a more natural way to use AI than smartphones.
“What is most different from smartphones is that glasses allow you to stay focused on the moment,” Kim said. She added that Meta sees glasses as an ideal device because they let people use AI while remaining connected to the world around them, rather than looking down at a screen.
