Three Ways Apple's AI Smart Glasses Can Unggung Meta Ray-Ban

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JAKARTA - Apple is reportedly preparing to launch its own AI-based smart glasses in 2026, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. While Apple is arguably quite late in entering this category, a number of flagship features offered have the potential to make this product superior to Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.

The author of the article, Michael Bur Way, shared his experience using Meta Ray-Ban and stated that he was quite impressed with his ability to take photos and videos instantly, answered short questions, and was used as a hidden headphones. This feature is very useful especially for active users like cyclists, because they can still listen to audio without completely covering their ears.

Based on a Bloomberg report, Apple's AI smart glasses are said to be equipped with cameras, microphones, and speakers just like Meta Ray-Ban. But more than that, Apple will add various AI capabilities such as access to Siri, visual intelligence, conversational translation, turn-by-turn navigation, to receiving phone calls and playing music. Apple is also said to be developing a special chip to support this device.

Here are three main features called the Burmencan make Apple's smart glasses superior to Meta Ray-Ban:

One of the biggest shortcomings of Meta Ray-Ban is its AI that doesn't really know users personally. If Apple is able to develop a truly contextual and integrated Siri with users' devices and habits, then the user experience can be much smoother and personal. For example, answering questions based on user personal data without the need to issue an iPhone.

The quality of the Meta Ray-Ban camera is currently still classified as standard, even tends to be soft and overprocessed digitally. Apple has the opportunity to improve this aspect with a higher quality camera that can still be included in the dimensions of glasses. A sharper and more natural visual experience is certainly a selling point in itself.

Currently, Meta Ray-Ban supports notification management only on Android, without maximum support on iOS. Apple can take advantage of its advantages in the iOS ecosystem by synchronizing these glasses with user Focus mode, so that only important notifications such as the 'Message' app will be read out. This will greatly help make smart glasses a standalone product even without a screen.

If these three features really materialize, Bur Total admitted that he did not hesitate to buy Apple AI Smart Glasses. The key lies in how smoothly the integration with the iPhone is and whether the selling price is still affordable.

While waiting for the presence of Apple's smart glasses, Meta Ray-Ban can still be an attractive alternative, especially when it's at 20% discount from the initial price of $299 to just $239 this weekend.