If you’d like a pair of glasses with hands-free video recording and an AI voice assistant, there aren’t a variety of choices, and the Ray-Ban Meta Good Glasses are the clear chief. However Solos, whose sensible glasses at the moment solely function audio, says it’ll promote a camera-equipped model later this 12 months — with OpenAI’s new GPT-4o AI mannequin to let the digicam acknowledge objects and reply questions on what you’re seeing.
The Solos AirGo Imaginative and prescient additionally embrace the identical swappable body system as Solos’ different glasses so you possibly can swap out the digicam — if you happen to’re going someplace a digicam wouldn’t be socially acceptable, or if you happen to’d simply relatively have a distinct look or some sunglasses as a substitute. Extra frames price between $89 and $129.
The Imaginative and prescient may also 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 apart from the LEDs.
The AirGo Imaginative and prescient don’t have a value or particular launch date but, however you possibly can anticipate them to price greater than $249.99 — as a result of that’s how a lot Solos will cost for a pair with out the digicam this July. The Ray-Bans at the moment nonetheless begin at $299.
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