Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Meta is putting time limits on one of its latest smart glasses features — a feature that improves audio for one-on-one conversations — and is asking device owners to pay $20 a month for extra time.
Change details It appears on the Meta help page Describe the management of premium features on wearable devices. According to the page, users of the conversation focus feature in Meta Smart Glasses are limited to three free hours per month. There is no way to verify time usage, and unspent time is not rolled over. Those with a Meta One Premium subscription, which costs $20 per month, still have a 15-hour cap.
It is not clear from the page what additional fees may be incurred if you exceed these limits. dead Premium plans have been tested For artificial intelligence services this year. The help page also mentions the Meta One Plus plan, but that level is not mentioned in terms of the focus of the conversation.
A Meta representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
was the focus of the conversation It was introduced in December As part of the glasses software update. Advantage It helps enhance and amplify the voice of the person speaking in front of the glasses, even in a noisy room. In a video of the feature, Mita shows two women at a restaurant using the feature to make it easier for the person wearing Mita glasses to hear her dinner companion.
Meta Glass is in the crosshairs
recently Controversy over facial recognition technology Meta, which is developing its own smart glasses, does not appear to have slowed down the company’s production line.
In late JuneCompany A announced Partnership with eyewear company EssilorLuxotticawhere Meta Glass models hit the market for $299 each. These models include the company’s Muse Spark AI model. One of the new styles of Meta Glasses is the Meta Starfire Kylie Edition endorsed by Kylie Jenner. New glasses are already available.
In early June, Wired published an investigation Which found that Meta developed facial recognition software for Meta Glasses through its Meta AI application. Program Deployed but not activatedon mobile devices. Meta removed the code shortly after the report and said no facial recognition feature had been released to consumers.
Later that month, Meta was criticized for… Holds a software license for the tools From Rank One Computing, a company that provides software, including facial recognition tools, used by the US government and law enforcement agencies.
