For Brian Manning, smart glasses are more than just a fun toy; they bring new independence and an easier way to interact with the world.
A partnership with Ray-Ban and Oakley, Meta’s new generation of smart glasses have cameras built in to take photos and video, subtle speakers so the wearer can hear audio, and a microphone to interact with the artificial intelligence that ties everything together.
An IT trainer at Vision Ireland, he has tested many devices intended to make life easier. As talk about the glasses and their potential picked up pace, he decided to try them out.
The glasses were a birthday gift to himself, a chance to test them out not as a technology trainer but from a more personal perspective. “I was gobsmacked by them,” he says. “For the most part I live alone. I was getting the feeling that these could really enhance my independence, my ability to live alone and function alone, and have so many extra aspects to my life that I would probably have had regardless of the Meta glasses, but in a very convenient and expeditious way.”
