Meta adds facial recognition feature called 'NameTag' to smart glasses app
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Stan Schroeder
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Summary
Meta has quietly added facial recognition technology (codenamed "NameTag") to its Meta AI app for smart glasses, as discovered by a Wired investigation. The feature can identify people captured by the camera on Meta's smart glasses (including Ray-Bans and Oakleys) and alert the wearer when it recognizes someone. While Meta had previously explored this capability, the company states it is not building a central face database.
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· 3 pulledMeta has quietly added facial recognition tech for its smart glasses to its Meta AI app.
The feature is internally called NameTag, and it can reportedly identity people captured by the camera on Meta's smart glasses, including Ray-Bans and Oakleys, as well as alert the wearer when it recognizes someone.
The company says it's not building a central face database.
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