Overview
- Meta is researching a facial-recognition feature for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, internally code-named Name Tag, according to The New York Times as cited by ITHome.
- The capability would let wearers identify people and receive related information through the glasses' AI assistant, based on internal descriptions.
- Options under consideration reportedly include recognizing a user's Meta friends or users with public accounts rather than enabling broad lookups of passersby.
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg is said to favor the feature to differentiate the device in the emerging AI glasses market.
- Internal documents indicated a planned accessibility-focused unveiling at a conference for blind people that did not occur, and the company has not announced the feature as it weighs privacy and legal risks.