Handwriting is my new favorite way to text with Ray-Ban Display Meta Glasses

When Meta first announced its display smart glasses last year, it launched a handwriting feature that lets users send messages by tracing letters with their hands. Today, the company is starting to unroll itpeople enrolled in its early access program getting it first,

I had the chance to try out this feature at CES and it made me want to start wearing my Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses more often. When I examined Last year I wrote about how one of my favorite things about Neural Strip is that it reduces my reliance on voice commands. I’ve always felt a little embarrassed talking with my glasses on in public.

Until now, responding to messages on display glasses still generally required voice dictation or generic predefined responses. But handwriting means you can finally send personalized messages and replies quite discreetly.

Sitting at a table wearing the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Neural Strip, I was able to quickly write a message simply by drawing the letters on the table in front of me. It wasn’t perfect – it misinterpreted a capital “I” as an “H” – but it was surprisingly intuitive. I was able to quickly trace a short sentence and even correct a typo (swiping from left to right adds a space, while swiping from right to left deletes the last character).

Alongside handwriting, Meta also announced a new teleprompter feature. Copy and paste a bunch of text (it supports up to 16,000 characters (about half an hour’s worth of speech)) and you can transmit your text to the glasses’ screen.

If you’ve ever used a teleprompter, Meta’s version works a little differently in that the text doesn’t automatically scroll while you speak. Instead, text is displayed on individual cards that you navigate through manually. The company told me that it initially tested a scrolling version, but in early tests people said they preferred to control when words appeared in front of them.

The teleprompter is starting to roll out now, although Meta says it could be a while before everyone can access it.

These updates are among the first major additions Meta has made to its display glasses since their launch late last year and a sign that, like its other smart glasses, the company plans to keep them updated with new features. Elsewhere at CES, the company announced some exciting new plans for the device. neuronal band and that it was dilatory a planned international deployment of the system.