I am getting the Meta Ray-Ban glasses. I am in the Middle East, so will I miss on features? I am going to use it to read text on paper and few other basic stuff, will this work outside EU and US?
Hey there @Maldalain,
You may not have live AI right away, but the look and describe what you see feature should work for you.
I'd say that reading text will be complicated at first until you figure out how to prompt it for the text correctly.
Especially as these glasses were not made specifically for the visually impaired, it can pose a chalenge.
Congratulations though, on those new glasses!
Presently not even the EU gets the ability to describe things the camera can see, it's only US, Canada and Australia.
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Portia, look and tell outside those three countries has been very inconsistent and has often required messing with a VPN but increasingly isn't possible even with a VPN. It's as if Meta are realising people are working around the restrictions and trying to block it.
I don't believe you can do that at present. The only way to do that unguided is to use Meta AI's Look and Ask which is only available in the US, Canada and Australia at present.
You can take photos with the glasses, then import them into the phone and use other apps to do it for you, but that does defeat the object a little.
There are some options that require another person to help you. Firstly, you can do WhatsApp video messaging to someone you know and ask them to read it. Or you could use a service like AIRA or Be My Eyes, although I don't know for sure if that's available where you are.
Can you do that with Meta AI on the glasses? I'll have to have a play later.
But presumably this does still require Meta AI of some sort and I'm not sure which countries it is available in. It only just came out in the UK without look and ask recently.
Yes, you can do this with the Meta AI. This is what I do. First I use the capture button to just take a random photo of whatever. Then I activate Meta AI, and I ask it something like "tell me about the last photo I took".
Would I get back as a brief description of the photograph I took, you can ask it more questions too depending on what's in the photograph. Well not perfect, I think it's a clever workaround for the current issue with the visual AI not being available in certain regions.
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Hey there @Maldalain,
You may not have live AI right away, but the look and describe what you see feature should work for you.
I'd say that reading text will be complicated at first until you figure out how to prompt it for the text correctly.
Especially as these glasses were not made specifically for the visually impaired, it can pose a chalenge.
Congratulations though, on those new glasses!
Presently
Presently not even the EU gets the ability to describe things the camera can see, it's only US, Canada and Australia.
Edit
Portia, look and tell outside those three countries has been very inconsistent and has often required messing with a VPN but increasingly isn't possible even with a VPN. It's as if Meta are realising people are working around the restrictions and trying to block it.
What can be done with the Glasses outside supported regions
So I do not want to buy something for very little use. Can I get it to read text?
Reading text
I don't believe you can do that at present. The only way to do that unguided is to use Meta AI's Look and Ask which is only available in the US, Canada and Australia at present.
You can take photos with the glasses, then import them into the phone and use other apps to do it for you, but that does defeat the object a little.
There are some options that require another person to help you. Firstly, you can do WhatsApp video messaging to someone you know and ask them to read it. Or you could use a service like AIRA or Be My Eyes, although I don't know for sure if that's available where you are.
What if ...
What if they take a photo with the capture button, then ask the AI to describe the photo? Is that possible?
@Brian
Can you do that with Meta AI on the glasses? I'll have to have a play later.
But presumably this does still require Meta AI of some sort and I'm not sure which countries it is available in. It only just came out in the UK without look and ask recently.
VPN
Will having a VPN give me the chance to have all features of the glasses?
Re: Describing photos
Yes, you can do this with the Meta AI. This is what I do. First I use the capture button to just take a random photo of whatever. Then I activate Meta AI, and I ask it something like "tell me about the last photo I took".
Would I get back as a brief description of the photograph I took, you can ask it more questions too depending on what's in the photograph. Well not perfect, I think it's a clever workaround for the current issue with the visual AI not being available in certain regions.