Meta Patents AI Smartglasses That Use Facial Recognition to Build Highlight Reels
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Updated · 404 Media · Aug 14
Meta Patents AI Smartglasses That Use Facial Recognition to Build Highlight Reels
3 articles · Updated · 404 Media · Aug 14
Summary
A patent published Thursday shows Meta designing AI smartglasses that identify people in view, detect actions such as picking up an item or walking around, and automatically generate short video clips.
Those clips would then be assembled into a highlight reel of a recent interaction, with the filing citing a dinner party as one example of footage served back to the user.
The patent offers unusually granular detail on Meta's plans for combining facial recognition with its smartglasses, a direction likely to intensify privacy concerns around the product.
Meta's glasses have already drawn criticism from detractors who describe them as “pervert glasses,” underscoring the backlash facial-recognition features could face if commercialized.