Meta Smart Glasses Can Now Track All the Food You Put Into Your Mouth

A new, more prescription-focused style of Ray-Ban-branded smart glasses stole the attention this week, but Meta also quietly announced a few more features for its smart glasses lineup, including… a way to track everything you eat. According to Meta, owners of Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses, or the Meta Ray-Ban Display, will soon be able to snap a photo of what they’re eating using a voice prompt and then log that food item in the Meta AI app. Meta says it will “extract key nutrition details” using AI and said photos. The idea is that Meta wants to use your food pics in concert with AI to give users “personalized insights” and help people make “healthier, more informed choices.” That process might involve asking Meta AI stuff like “What should I eat to increase my energy?” or other prompts in that vein. One thing that jumped out to me in its explanation of that feature, though, is that Meta has lofty plans to expand that functionality in the future. Obviously, having to manually log everything is a bit of a pain, and having smart glasses that do the same thing, but in an “ambient” kind of way, would be more convenient. That’s why Meta says that “in the future,” its smart glasses will “un