{"id":11628,"date":"2024-06-26T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:50:50","slug":"i-wore-meta-ray-bans-in-montreal-to-test-their-ai-translation-skills-it-did-not-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=11628","title":{"rendered":"I Wore Meta Ray-Bans in Montreal to Test Their AI Translation Skills. It Did Not Go Well"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Imagine you\u2019ve just arrived in another country, you don\u2019t speak the language, and you stumble upon a construction zone. The air is thick with dust. You\u2019re tired. You still stink like airplane. You try to ignore the jackhammers to decipher what the signs say: Do you need to cross the street, or walk up another block, or turn around?<\/p>\n

I was in exactly<\/em> such a situation this week, but I came prepared. I\u2019d flown to Montreal to spend two days testing the new AI translation feature on Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban smart sunglasses<\/a>. Within 10 minutes of setting out on my first walk, I ran into a barrage of confusing orange detour signs.<\/p>\n

The AI<\/a> translation feature is meant to give wearers a quick, hands-free way to understand text written in foreign languages, so I couldn\u2019t have devised a better pop quiz on how it works in real time.<\/p>\n

As an excavator rumbled, I looked at a sign and started asking my sunglasses<\/a> to tell me what it said. Before I could finish, a harried Quebecois construction worker started shouting at me and pointing northwards, and I scurried across the street.<\/p>\n

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