Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses and their gesture-sensing neural band promised a future the place we might be writing out messages on our legs with our fingers. I noticed Meta’s staff doing this last year, however I by no means obtained to strive it myself. Now, in case you have the glasses and band, you can strive it too. Meta announced the news Tuesday together with information on a proof-of-concept smart car integration with Garmin that I demoed here at CES.
Help for handwriting recognition with a finger is rolling out in early entry now to Ray-Ban Show glasses, which ought to give one other choice to responding to messages within the glasses apart from voice dictation. My handwriting is horrible, and I might choose some form of magic air-typing. However that does not exist but, though Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth suggested to me it might be within the playing cards sometime.
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The handwriting characteristic may work on any floor, in accordance with Meta, like a desk (or your leg), nevertheless it’s solely English-supported for now, and solely works with Messenger and WhatsApp. The brand new characteristic is a part of a number of new glasses updates, together with a brand new teleprompter mode and assist for pedestrian navigation in additional US cities (32 now) utilizing the built-in map app.
However do not count on to do this outdoors the US anytime quickly. Meta’s paused the worldwide launch of Ray-Ban Show glasses for now, citing extraordinarily restricted stock and lengthy ready lists within the US.Â
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