Meta Hopes a Hide-and-Seek App Will Convince You to Buy Its Smart Glasses

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. New device categories face a lot of hurdles when they’re starting out, but one of the most pressing obstacles is figuring out what the hell to even do with them. Meta’s answer to that very complex and important question? Hide-and-seek, apparently. In a blog post detailing new apps in the pipeline for its Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses and the Meta Ray-Ban Display, the company showed off potential new capabilities being developed via its Wearables Device Access Toolkit—an SDK program for developers interested in building apps that use the camera and speakers in Meta’s smart glasses, but not the Meta Ray-Ban Display’s screen quite yet. Among those groundbreaking new capabilities are apps like plant identification, a time-lapse app that records you drawing, an app that watches you study, and… a hide-and-seek app that records you playing with your kids? I’m going to assume none of these are going to send anyone rushing out to their nearest Ray-Ban retailer to buy a pair of $800 smart glasses, but this is just where we’re at

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