A company spokesperson said it was “still reviewing all of our options to find the best approach.”
If you own one of Meta’s AI glasses, you should take advantage of the Conversation Focus feature while you can. As first reported The edgeMeta suspends its rate limits for the accessibility feature which uses the speakers of the glasses to amplify the voice of your interlocutor. Meta spokesperson Tyler Yee said The edge“We’ve heard the feedback, so we’re pausing its subscription testing for now,” adding that “Conversation Focus will remain available for free through our early access program for early testers while we work on a better approach.”
Last month, Meta quietly added rate limits to its Conversation Focus feature for its smart glasses. Using the feature would be free until you exceeded three hours per month, after which you would have to pay for a $20 per month Meta One Premium plan, which still had a cap of 15 hours of usage per month. It is still unclear why Meta added rate limits to the Conversation Focus feature, since this was proven by The edge to work on device and without internet connection.
Although Meta has chosen to keep the Conversation Focus feature free for the moment, its future is not yet clear. According to Yee, Meta wants to “make sure we’re doing things right” when talking about this feature, and that the company is “always exploring all of our options to find the best approach.” Even more vague, said Meta spokesperson The edge that “some premium features will be subscription-based over time,” attributing this to how charging for certain features helps Meta maintain its strategy of subsidizing hardware prices.
