确实，这些智能眼镜几乎随处可见——在本次年度活动中，Meta公司展示了其最新的硬件和人工智能产品。无论是Meta的员工，还是经常参加该活动的众多网红们，几乎都戴着这些眼镜。该公司本周提供的所有演示环节也都涉及了这些智能眼镜的使用。**我迅速加入了那些戴着眼镜的人群中，试穿了一副又一副Meta推出的高科技智能眼镜。
Indeed, the glasses were pretty much everywhere at the annual event, where Meta shows off its newest hardware and AI products. Both Meta staff and the flocks of influencers who frequent the event seemed to arrive with the glasses glued to their faces. Most of the demos the company offered this week also involved the glasses. I swiftly joined the bespectacled masses and found myself trying on pair after pair of Meta’s high-tech specs.
其中一款特别值得关注的产品是Meta尚未正式发布的新款“仅支持音频功能的智能眼镜”。这款眼镜的消息是在该公司摆脱“滥用技术进行不正当监控”的指控后不久才公开的；批评者认为，这些配备摄像头的智能眼镜可能被用于恶意监控目的。不过，新款眼镜并未配备摄像头，也没有任何能够记录用户周围环境的功能，这无疑大大缓解了用户的隐私担忧。与之前我使用过的任何智能眼镜相比，这款眼镜要轻得多，佩戴起来也非常舒适。
One of the more notable products I had an opportunity to demo were Meta’s new, still-unreleased, audio-only smart glasses. News of these glasses emerged not long after the company weathered accusations that it was selling “pervert glasses,” with critics alleging that its camera-equipped specs could be used for nefarious surveillance purposes. The new glasses come equipped with six microphones, but no camera, and they have no native way to record your surroundings, which should go a long way toward easing privacy concerns. They are significantly lighter than any of the other smart glasses I’ve worn, and they were quite comfortable.
与我交谈的Meta工作人员强调了这款眼镜的娱乐和沟通功能：用户可以轻松地听音乐（相比耳机来说更加舒适），并且无需掏出手机就能接听电话。此外，这款眼镜还能与Meta的“Muse”个人助手系统集成——用户可以通过语音命令来让Muse执行各种任务。目前这项功能尚未向公众开放，但未来用户可以选择各种可爱的数字头像作为Muse的“化身”，让Muse在与其交流时使用这些头像来代表自己。
The Meta staffer I talked to emphasized the glasses’ entertainment and communication options: you can listen to music easily (they’re more comfortable than earbuds) and take phone calls without reaching for your phone. The glasses will also integrate with Muse, Meta’s personal agentic system, which can carry out tasks on the user’s behalf. The new integration, which isn’t yet available to the public, lets wearers speak to Muse and give it commands verbally. Meta also plans to personalize the agent, letting users pick from an assortment of cute digital avatars that can represent the agent when it communicates with them.
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播放/暂停 SPACE 调高音量↑ 调低音量↓ 快进→ 快退← 字幕开/关 c 全屏/退出全屏 f 静音/取消静音 m 缩小字幕尺寸- 放大字幕尺寸+或= 跳转至0%-9% 直播我得到了一次亲身体验的机会，过程很有趣，但也颇具喜剧性。你必须非常直接地与智能体交流，而且不能同时和旁人说话，否则它会感到困惑。麻烦的是，我不断断断续续地和那位把眼镜交给我的Meta员工聊天，智能体却一直以为我是在对它说话，于是会盖过她说话。
Play/Pause SPACE Increase Volume↑ Decrease Volume↓ Seek Forward→ Seek Backward← Captions On/Off c Fullscreen/Exit Fullscreen f Mute/Unmute m Decrease Caption Size- Increase Caption Size+ or = Seek %0-9 Live I was given an opportunity to try this out, which was fun but also somewhat comical. You have to be very direct with the agent, and you can’t talk to anyone else at the same time or it will get confused. Problematically, I kept chatting intermittently with the Meta staffer who’d given me the glasses, and the agent kept thinking I was speaking to it, so it would talk over her.
尽管如此，在恰当的场景下，很容易看出这项新功能集成可能极其有用。如果你不在意在公共场所被看到对着自己的太阳镜讲话，你就可以让Muse替你处理各种数字事务，比如发送邮件或念出待办事项清单，而且你外出采购食品或喝啤酒时，它也能把事情办妥。你还可以向眼镜问任何问题，就像使用移动版ChatGPT一样，它会直接给出答案。（我问了一个关于第二次世界大战的问题，眼镜给出了一个简洁且符合史实的回答。）最后，我还试用了第二副纯音频眼镜：Meta面向听障人士推出的新眼镜。鉴于听力损失困扰着许多家庭（据称约有5000万美国人存在不同程度的听力损失），与许多其他现代科技小玩意不同，这款设备有着明确而实用的用途。
Still, in the right context, it’s easy to see how this new integration could be incredibly useful. If you don’t mind being seen in public talking to your own sunglasses, you’ll be able to ask Muse to take care of various digital tasks for you, like sending emails or reciting to-do lists, and it will handle them while you’re out grocery shopping or having a beer. You can also ask the glasses anything, and like a mobile version of ChatGPT, they’ll spit out an answer. (I asked the glasses a question about World War II, and they gave me a succinct and historically accurate response.) Finally, I also got to test-drive a second audio-only pair: Meta’s new glasses for the hearing impaired. Given that hearing loss affects many families (some 50 million Americans are said to have some level of hearing loss), this device, unlike a lot of other modern tech gadgets, serves a clear and practical purpose.
我与Meta研究团队的一名成员简单交流了几句。他说，这些眼镜已经研发了大约五年，并指出了一项可能使其更具吸引力的价格优势：许多助听器售价高达1600美元，而这款眼镜售价仅为150美元。
I spoke briefly with a member of Meta’s research team who said the glasses had been in development for some five years, and he pointed out a price difference that could make them appealing: whereas a lot of hearing aids can run as high as $1,600, the glasses will sell for $150.
佩戴这副眼镜的体验很有意思。Meta让我先塞上耳塞，再试戴眼镜，以模拟这款眼镜旨在帮助用户克服的听力损失。戴上眼镜后，它似乎能放大与我交谈的人的声音。用户可以根据自己对周围环境的聆听需求，在放大模式之间切换：“聚焦”模式会锁定正前方的人，“全向”模式则能捕捉四周的声音。
The experience of wearing these glasses was interesting. Meta had me put earplugs in before trying them on to simulate the hearing loss that the glasses are meant to help users overcome. Once the glasses were on, they seemed to amplify the voice of the person I was talking to. Users can switch the amplification from focused, which zeroes in on the person in front of them, to omnidirectional, which picks up sound from all around them, depending on how they want to experience their surroundings.
马克·扎克伯格已经明确表示，他认为智能眼镜是未来，而他的公司显然也在竭尽全力践行这一使命。不过，智能眼镜仍是一个尚未真正站稳脚跟的小众市场。在Connect大会上，最明显的一点是，Meta为了在其他厂商折戟之处取得成功，广泛发力，试图将其眼镜打造得时尚、功能强大，而且最重要的是实用。
Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that he believes smart glasses are the future, and it’s evident that his company is doing its best to fulfill that mandate. But smart glasses remain a niche that has yet to truly find its footing. What was most obvious at Connect is that Meta has — in an attempt to succeed where others have failed — cast a very wide net, trying to make its glasses stylish, functional, and, most of all, useful.
这就是未来吗？毫不意外，Connect现场的每个人似乎都这么认为。看来，我们还得看看世界其他地方会不会效仿。
Is this the future? Unsurprisingly, everyone at Connect seemed to think so. I suppose we’ll have to see if the rest of the world follows suit.