Meta AI may soon become accessible on Quest headsets within the United States and Canada as an experimental feature, set to debut in August, and is expected to include Vision capabilities on Quest 3.
Meta AI is a cutting-edge conversational AI assistant, built upon the company’s proprietary open-source massive language models, specifically designed under the LLaMA framework. Within the US & Canada, Meta AI is at the moment obtainable in textual content kind on the net at meta.ai or within the WhatsApp and Messenger telephone apps, and in audio kind on Ray-Ban Meta sensible glasses through saying “Hey Meta”.
Since April, Meta AI has integrated its technology into Ray-Ban glasses, enabling a multimodal experience that allows users to pose questions about their surroundings simply by capturing and analyzing images through the device’s cameras.
This functionality is rebranded as Meta AI with Intuitive and predictive capabilities, initially available on Quest 3 via its passthrough cameras, hinting at potential integration with digital objects and immersive virtual reality experiences in the future. As a result, third-party developers are unable to access passthrough cameras, effectively blocking any potential competitors from launching their own visual AI solutions on the Quest platform.
Meta AI may also be accessible on Quest 2, albeit without its Vision feature, limiting functionality to voice input only.
On each headset, Meta AI will be able to access real-time data through Bing, equivalent to receiving up-to-the-minute sports scores and weather updates.
Meta announces that Meta AI is set to replace the current Voice Command system on Quest, potentially deprecating it in the near future.
Voice Instructions have historically been available exclusively in the United States and Canada; as yet, there is no announced timeline for Meta AI’s expansion to other countries. Meta has announced that, due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment, it will not be releasing multimodal Llama fashions within the European Union. However, the company confirmed plans to introduce these features in the UK, citing greater regulatory clarity. Despite this initial vagueness, Meta suggests that it will continue to refine its capabilities gradually.