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Sorry, VR: The Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarers Are the Best Face Computer


Finally! An AI-enabled face computer that's comfortable, useful, attractive, and not completely humiliating to wear.

Unlike clunky goggles or recent AI-powered hardware swings like the Humane Ai pin or the Rabbit R1, the Meta glasses are a stylish and useful addition to my technology quiver that integrate seamlessly into my real life. I have outsourced about 80 percent of my brain to my phone's camera roll, and when I can't capture a special moment, I really feel like I'm missing out—like the time I raced to attend my daughter’s end-of-the-year school music performance and was the only parent not recording it. (“Hey Meta, who is Trader Joe?”) If there was a product that could lure me out of Apple's walled garden and into the warm embrace of a company that has a documented history of not always doing the right thing with its customer's data, my talking sunglasses would be it.

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