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Meta's standalone AI assistant application for consumers.
Meta's $449 Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) is rated for nine hours of battery, one more than before, Gizmodo's review reported. Calls let in more background noise in the reviewer's tests, so for owners of the last pair that hour is close to the whole upgrade.
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Meta will put voice-driven scanned avatars into WhatsApp calls from its $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses this fall, ahead of its spring 2027 VR Glasses. The first people to see them will be on ordinary phones, looking at a face where a glasses call used to show the wearer's view.
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Engadget's reviewer spent part of a WhatsApp call with one of Meta's new holographic avatars before working out it was not a live person. Early access opens this fall on the VR glasses and the Ray-Ban Display frames.
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Private Processing, the siloed cloud scheme Meta built for WhatsApp last year, is coming to Ray-Ban Meta glasses so the assistant can work on data Meta says it cannot read. Meta's engineering director told WIRED he does not have a timeline.
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Sensor Tower puts Muse past 83,000 iOS downloads in the United States in its first two days. Threads did more than 4.3 million on its launch day, and the Meta AI app did 108,000 on its first. Muse is No. 2 anyway.
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