If you need a pair of glasses with hands-free video recording and an AI voice assistant, there aren’t a number of choices, and the Ray-Ban Meta Good Glasses are the clear chief. However Solos, whose sensible 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 embrace the identical swappable body system as Solos’ different glasses so you possibly can swap out the digital camera — if you happen to’re going someplace a digital camera wouldn’t be socially acceptable, or if you happen to’d simply reasonably have a special look or some shades as an alternative. Extra frames price 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 possibly can count on 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 digital camera this July. The Ray-Bans presently nonetheless begin at $299.
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