If you need a pair of glasses with hands-free video recording and an AI voice assistant, there aren’t loads of choices, and the Ray-Ban Meta Sensible Glasses are the clear chief. However Solos, whose good glasses presently solely characteristic audio, says it’ll promote a camera-equipped model later this 12 months — with OpenAI’s new GPT-4o AI mannequin to let the digital camera acknowledge objects and reply questions on what you’re seeing.
The Solos AirGo Imaginative and prescient additionally embody the identical swappable body system as Solos’ different glasses so you’ll be able to swap out the digital camera — in the event you’re going someplace a digital camera wouldn’t be socially acceptable, or in the event you’d simply relatively have a distinct look or some sunglasses as a substitute. Extra frames value between $89 and $129.
The Imaginative and prescient will even have notification LEDs to warn you of incoming calls or emails, the corporate says, and the corporate claims they can be built-in with Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude AI fashions. Like Meta’s Ray-Bans, they’ll reply questions over audio — they don’t have a show aside from the LEDs.
The AirGo Imaginative and prescient don’t have a worth or particular launch date but, however you’ll be able to anticipate them to value greater than $249.99 — as a result of that’s how a lot Solos will cost for a pair with out the digital camera this July. The Ray-Bans presently nonetheless begin at $299.
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