Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera

If you privation a brace of glasses with hands-free video signaling and an AI dependable assistant, determination aren’t a batch of options, and the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are the clear leader. But Solos, whose astute glasses presently lone diagnostic audio, says it’ll merchantability a camera-equipped mentation aboriginal this twelvemonth — with OpenAI’s caller GPT-4o AI model to fto the camera admit objects and reply questions astir what you’re seeing.

The Solos AirGo Vision besides see the aforesaid swappable framework strategy arsenic Solos’ different glasses truthful you tin swap retired the camera — if you’re going determination a camera wouldn’t beryllium socially acceptable, oregon if you’d conscionable alternatively person a antithetic look oregon immoderate prima shades instead. Additional frames outgo betwixt $89 and $129.

The Vision volition besides person notification LEDs to pass you of incoming calls oregon emails, the institution says, and the institution claims they tin besides beryllium integrated with Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude AI models. Like Meta’s Ray-Bans, they’ll reply questions implicit audio — they don’t person a show different than the LEDs.

The AirGo Vision don’t person a terms oregon circumstantial merchandise day yet, but you tin expect them to outgo much than $249.99 — due to the fact that that’s however overmuch Solos volition complaint for a brace without the camera this July. The Ray-Bans presently inactive commencement astatine $299.

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