Meta Just Made Navigation on Its Smart Glasses a Lot More Useful

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. If there’s one area that Meta’s smart glasses feel genuinely built for (outside of covertly recording people), it’s doing stuff hands-free. I’ve used quite a few pairs of smart glasses this past year, and audio/navigation are still two of the biggest use cases where the form factor makes a lot of sense. Both of those things just got a notable upgrade on Meta’s AI glasses. In version 128 of Meta’s smart glasses firmware, Meta introduces something that anyone who uses the company’s non-display smart glasses has likely been waiting for: turn-by-turn walking directions. Now, you can actually use the “Hey Meta” command to launch walking navigation in the glasses with commands (like, “Hey Meta, navigate to Times Square”). Previously, you weren’t able to launch navigation from the glasses; the best you could do was turn on navigation in a third-party app and then have the directions play over Bluetooth, or use Siri or Google Assistant on your phone—not exactly ideal if you’re trying to minimize interaction with your pho