Meta calls its Ray-Ban glasses AI glasses.
I asked a simple question at Google's Project Aura demo last week. What do you call these things? To my surprise, multiple people launched into a vigorous discussion on the taxonomy of glasses-shaped face computers.
It turns out "smart glasses" is out as a term. The term "AI glasses" is in. Kind of. Actually, it seems no one's fully on the same page.
Let's back up, and I'll explain. At the beginning of the year, a Meta comms representative asked if I could refer to Ray-Ban Meta glasses as "AI glasses." Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth have referred to the glasses as the perfect vehicle for AI. Framing these devices as AI gl …