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Weird take: my biggest annoyance with Meta glasses after 1+ year of almost daily usage is that there is no way to switch from Meta AI to any other voice AI.

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They are connected to smartphone, aren't they? Pretty much any AI can work with any headset.

When I was testing my voice AI app with them there were no major issues: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737482921?pt=12710...

You can use them as generic mic/headphones but you can also say “hey meta what does this statue say in English” and it will do a comically bad translation for you. It would be really nice if that workflow could use a better model.

Hah so they're actually worse than my $16 bluetooth headphones unless you actually need the camera.

…or the sunglasses.

they can be used to talk to any other ai. but you can’t easily activate it via voice/touch on the device. i’m unaware of any bt device that allows you to activate AI of choice.

The bluetooth headphones I have on now have an assistant button. Supposedly it sends something like an HSP/AVRCP event to activate it although I haven't set any of that up since I'm on Linux.

Not a weird take. Just a shit product in that regard then.

Bad explanation from my side. As generic headphones/mic they are perfect for chatting with ChatGPT in voice mode (that's how I use it most of the time, in fact). As comment above explained, they have their own "Hey Meta," listening feature and I would love to switch it to ChatGPT (or other voice AI).

In a way, that's similar how you can't change iPhone/AirPods to stop responding to "Hey Siri" and trigger ChatGPT instead. So I still label my take as weird )

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