00:00Hi all, and welcome back to another exciting edition of Tech Connect.
00:03I'm Luke, he's Corey, I'm wearing my sweater,
00:06he's wearing the Meta to find out how it's gotten better.
00:09Let's check it out.
00:17So today we're taking a look at the Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
00:20We did a video on these before.
00:22You can find a link down in the chat box there.
00:24And this is a really cool pair of AI glasses that can do some great stuff,
00:28but they just added a whole new feature.
00:31Corey, what is the new feature?
00:32Yeah, so there has been talk obviously of Aira and Be My Eyes getting added to the Meta glasses.
00:39Be My Eyes is officially now available.
00:43I think they are doing a bit of a slow rollout.
00:45So if you don't see it in your MetaView app, just hold tight.
00:49It'll be there soon. Same with Aira.
00:52I think they're doing a slow roll out on that.
00:54But today we are going to be taking a look at the new Be My Eyes feature.
01:00We're going to see how to enable it, how to connect to a volunteer.
01:03So if you're already using Meta glasses and you're using the Be My Eyes integration,
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01:20All right, Corey, so I've got the Meta glasses.
01:23I've got the MetaView app, but how do I enable the Be My Eyes feature?
01:26Well, first you want to make sure that you have Be My Eyes app installed on your phone and logged in.
01:32I just told you, Corey, I downloaded the MetaView app.
01:34That's why I told you to make sure you also have the Be My Eyes.
01:37Yeah, I'm pretty positive.
01:40I haven't tried it without, but I'm pretty positive you need the Be My Eyes app installed
01:45and you want to be logged in because you're going to see in a moment when we connect them,
01:49it actually doesn't even ask us to log in.
01:51So I'm assuming it's grabbing the credentials from my Be My Eyes app.
01:55So what you're going to do once you've got your MetaView app open,
01:58you're going to go down and tap on settings.
02:04And then we're going to look for accessibility.
02:12And now we're going to tap on accessibility.
02:18And within the accessibility option, we just have one option right now, Be My Eyes.
02:23Now, if you're watching this later on, you might see Aira in here at that point,
02:28but right now we just have Be My Eyes.
02:29So we're going to tap on that.
02:36And on the Be My Eyes, we should be able to find an option here
02:40that's going to allow us to enable or turn it on.
02:47There we go. Connect.
02:52All right. And we'll tap on connect again.
03:01And it tells us it can now, Be My Eyes can now be used with our glasses.
03:05So we'll tap OK. There we go.
03:10So we've now connected our MetaGlasses to Be My Eyes.
03:14If you ever want to disconnect or get rid of that connection, just follow the same steps.
03:19You'll go to settings, accessibility. But this time under Be My Eyes,
03:23you'll see that you have an option to disconnect versus connect.
03:26Another way to disconnect is turn off your phone and never turn it on again.
03:30Yes, or turn off the glasses. Yep.
03:33Or you could break the phone and the glasses and throw them in the ocean.
03:37That is actually the recommended way to disconnect.
03:41Let's try out the actual integration.
03:44We're going to connect with a volunteer and see if they can help me identify a very important product.
03:52All right, we have got our Be My Eyes turned on, Luke.
03:56It is time to connect with a volunteer because I asked you what this product was
04:01and you refused to tell me what it was.
04:05You said you'd be independent and find another way to find out about this product.
04:09I feel like you're painting me in a very poor light here.
04:12Well, you know what? If the brush fits in your hand.
04:16That's not a saying. Paint away, said Picasso.
04:21You never heard that from Pablo Picasso? No, I feel like you just made that up.
04:25No, I saw it on the Internet. Abraham Lincoln posted it.
04:29You gotta believe it. He was very honest.
04:31You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
04:35All right, so we are going to go ahead and use our trigger phrase here
04:39and we're going to connect to a Be My Eyes.
04:41Trigger warning on the screen, please, Jonathan.
04:46All right, here we go. Hey Meta, Be My Eyes.
04:49Calling a volunteer on Be My Eyes.
04:52All right, so it's opened up the Be My Eyes app on my phone.
04:57And it's now connecting with a Be My Eyes volunteer.
05:01Hello. Hi, I was just hoping you could let me know what product this was, please.
05:06Oh, yeah. Move over to the right. The right a little bit.
05:10To the left, sorry. It says hard surface disinfecting wipes.
05:15Perfect. I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
05:17Yeah, no problem. Have a great one. You too. Thanks. Bye.
05:22So perfect. Stopped using your glasses camera.
05:24I was able to get connected to a Be My Eyes volunteer.
05:28They could obviously see through the camera lens on the glasses
05:32and then I could talk with them. What a lovely person it was.
05:35Yeah, she was very nice. I appreciate it. Now that I'm assuming the camera,
05:40I was holding it too far to the right.
05:42So they obviously told me to move it over to the left. No, no, she didn't.
05:46That was your bad, I'm afraid. Okay. Yeah, she said move to the right.
05:49Now you thought she meant the product,
05:51but the way she phrased it to me meant move your head to the right,
05:54which would have worked. Oh, so if you go, oh, yeah, that's to say,
05:57okay, you're a genius. I am not.
06:01So why don't we move on to the conclusion where we conclude that I'm not a genius.
06:05Okay, let's do it.
06:09All right, Colby. Well, we have connected with Be My Eyes
06:12and it's been a lovely experience. The Metaglasses,
06:16we've obviously done a video before. They're really cool.
06:19They continue to add new features that make them a viable option for people
06:24with vision loss, especially now with adding Be My Eyes,
06:29you know, being a free service. You might ask,
06:31well, maybe you won't ask because you are smarter than I am,
06:34which we concluded in the last episode.
06:37But you know, you're not getting the Be My Eye feature because you don't need it.
06:41You've already got the Meta AI feature.
06:42So you're just getting the original Be My Eyes service of connecting to a sighted volunteer.
06:49So that coupled with Aira when it happens is great
06:53because we're getting hands-free service.
06:55You know now if you're out and about traveling
06:58or whatever having that hands-free on the glasses just makes life so much easier.
07:03So yeah, two thumbs up as Cisco and Eber used to say.
07:07All right. Well good. Yeah, and if you have the Metaglasses already,
07:10this is a free edition. And if you don't they start from $299.
07:14So as far as assistive technology goes,
07:17this is one of the cheapest products on the market if not the cheapest.
07:20That is true. So why not to get yourself a pair
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