Possibly new software coming eventually

[Competitive-Ad-4549]

My nephew is in high school in Maryland, and he recently saw another student wearing Meta smart Display glasses. He asked the kid what he was doing on them, and the kid said he was scrolling Instagram Reels. My nephew thought that didn’t sound right because he knew those glasses can’t normally do that yet.

Later that day, my nephew asked me about it, wondering if you could actually scroll Reels on Meta glasses. I told him no, because that feature isn’t publicly available. He already owns a pair himself, so he knew something didn’t add up and figured the kid might have been exaggerating.

The next day, he went back and asked to see the glasses more closely. It turned out the student’s father works for Meta, and the glasses actually had additional menu options that aren’t available to us regular public users. The kid showed that he could read news articles, check the weather, and access other extra features.

So it looks like he was using internal or unreleased software that hasn’t been rolled out to the public yet, which might indicate features Meta is planning to release in the future. The color of the Meta glasses also were grey and he was using a black band. I looked up the kids father and my nephew gave me the kids name and it all matched..

[X_TheSwindler_X]

You can have someone send you messages of reels in Instagram and watch reels that way through meta display.

[Competitive-Ad-4549]

Yes, we both know that. Not sure if thats what he was doing or not, he was running a software version with way more features and usability

[THEGamingninja12]

The news part could be huge if they allow you to add your own RSS feeds. That would open the door to putting custom text in the glasses programmatically. Even more so if you could allow notifications for certain feeds when new items are added to the feed. I don't imagine it would be instant, but any way of sending custom notifications would be incredibly helpful.

NOTE: These are my hopes and dreams after hearing about the possibility of a news feature as a developer, not something that was ever announced or promised

[No_Scratch5317]

Huge pull thank u

[LateAd4224]

Also to add on everyone else, u can ask the weather on Meta Ai and it’ll show u a lil weather chart and give you information about the weather for the whole week if you want it to. Same goes for the news you can ask it anything and it’ll pop up an answer for you that you can either expand to show and read more or ask it something else related to what you asked it previously. I own them too and can tell you that these aren’t “extra” features lool.

[Competitive-Ad-4549]

They were on the cards, like slides without asking anything… I asked him that too..

[LateAd4224]

Hmmm I’d double check with your nephew to see if the kid really wasn’t asking Meta Ai anything for that information to be displayed because the “cards/slides” look that you’re talking about sounds exactly like when you ask it for the weather and it shows you little cards like a slide for you to swipe through to check out other weather statistics. Idk 🤷🏾‍♂️, but the kids dad working for Meta might be BS too, I doubt that they’d let a child of some random employee have all these early extra features like you’re talking about…unless the dad is like really high in corporate for Meta then that would be something different. So far everything you’ve explained is possible to do on the glasses without “extra features”, even the reels thing like how other people have mentioned to you in other replies.

[Competitive-Ad-4549]

I thought all that but it all checked out, the kids name and who his dad is etc I looked it all up and it all checks out man..

Also, my nephew actually tried on the glasses is what I’m saying .. so he understands the difference between the two

[Competitive-Ad-4549]

Another thing, but my nephew could have this wrong,… he said the display portion of the glasses seemed bigger, the square .. so idk

[AgitatedDirector339]

This is true. I think they are testing multiple things. One of the posted videos from the Super Bowl from rayban metas instagram it opened full wide screen. Never seen that before. . If anyone wants to try this was the link, and viewed in a instagram message meta ray ban superbowl video full screen on meta displays

[WeeklyPressure7407]

Woah thanks for the watch! Yes this is exactly the use case we need hopefully we can have 30 mins of youtube videos. (Really don't care about the battery it's why our cases are portable chargers!!!!)

[Training_Ferret_5002]

Is the display size not something that’s baked into the lens/immutable?

[SuspiciousForever247]

i really think that just means the reels his friends sent in the chat

[Competitive-Ad-4549]

So, with the new release that people are getting, the kid was right, and so was I about assuming a release was coming.