The Latest Meta Smart Glasses Update Makes This Ray-ban Model Even Easier For Me To Recommend

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Meta is rolling retired its Nov. firmware update crossed Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses.
• The spot includes longer, better-stabilized video recording.
• You tin besides sync Garmin stats pinch video captures.

It's nary concealed that nan astir astonishing upside of owning a brace of Meta Ray-Bans has been nan package support, which, complete nan people of 2 years, has introduced caller camera capabilities, AI features, and different improvements to nan world's astir celebrated smart glasses.

The latest November firmware update (v19.2) whitethorn beryllium nan astir important 1 yet, arsenic it brings enhanced Garmin integration and much elastic video-recording options for some caller and older models. 

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The Garmin feature, including nan expertise to inquire Meta AI for unrecorded wellness statistics, was antecedently exclusive to the Meta Oakley glasses, which are geared toward sports enthusiasts and athletes. Now, moreover owners of nan original Meta Ray-Bans tin get successful connected nan action.

Meta is besides giving users nan expertise to grounds videos successful 1080p solution astatine 60 frames per second. That intends your footage should person a overmuch smoother appearance, pinch fluid visuals and little stuttering. And if you want to return it a measurement further, that aforesaid footage tin beryllium dialed down (typically astatine 0.7 aliases 0.8 speed) for a melodramatic slow-motion effect. 

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Personally, I'm astir excited to trial nan caller video stabilization levels, which are designed to region jitters from recordings while keeping things leveled done package processing and cropping. Essentially, your videos should look little shaky, particularly if you're jogging aliases moving quickly, astatine nan disbursal of a smaller section of view. This is akin to really smartphones electronically stabilize footage, and that's ever been reasonably effective.

For what it's worth, Meta provides nan action to auto-select stabilization levels, allowing your glasses to automatically set nan smoothening based connected your level of activity during recording.

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Some different caller updates see an extended five-minute signaling magnitude (up from 3 minutes) and seizure enhancements, specified arsenic auto-leveling and auto-cropping, erstwhile nan glasses camera is obstructed by objects for illustration hats aliases hair. That past spot is reasonably useful, arsenic users pinch longer hairsbreadth aliases who deterioration caps tin often find their footage compromised.

The latest November update is rolling retired to each Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses this week, truthful I'd urge updating some your Meta AI app and nan package settings wrong to entree nan newest features. At nan clip of writing, nan update appears to beryllium launching only successful nan US, truthful world users whitethorn want to hold a spot earlier changes return effect.