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🌐 This week, we're breaking down Meta Connect 2024 and how AI, AR, and wearable tech are revolutionizing Fashion & Beauty. 💄👗👟

✨ This Week:

• 👓 Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses: The Next Gen AI Wearable Tech

• 🦾 Meta AI: Voice, Avatars, and Tools for Fashion & Beauty

• 👾 Orion AR Glasses: Everyday Augmented Reality

📚 What is Meta Connect?

Meta Connect is Meta's annual event showcasing its latest innovations. This year’s highlights? AI, AR, and how wearable tech is transforming our everyday lives. 🌐

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🗞️ In this Issue #024

👓 Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses: The Next Gen AI Wearable Tech

📚 What you need to know

Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses have leveled up. Initially launched in 2021, the newest version blends sleek design with cutting-edge AI features.

 🔑 Key Features Include:

• 🎥 Real-Time AI: Get instant answers by asking questions through the glasses—whether it’s outfit inspo or must-try recipes.

• 🗓️ Smart Reminders: Snap a photo, and the glasses will remind you later, perfect for shopping moments on-the-go.

• 🌏 Live Translation: Speak in multiple languages seamlessly (English, Spanish, French, Italian)—ideal for travel or international meetings.

• 🎶 Built-in Audio: Enjoy music, podcasts, or audiobooks via Spotify, Amazon Music, and Audible directly through the glasses.

• 📲 QR Code Scanning: Scan codes on-the-spot and open on your phone.

👓 Limited Edition Alert

• New Design: Translucent Frames with Transition Lenses literally show off the tech insider the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, priced at $429, 7500 units available, comes with a chic black case.

💡 Why this matters:

• Content Creation: With 12MP cameras, creators can shoot hands-free, streaming directly to platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

• Personal Assistant: AI-powered tools like live video processing, reminders, and translations make this more than just tech—it’s your stylish assistant.

• Fashion Meets Function: Meta and EssilorLuxottica extend their partnership. Next up for smart glasses: Prada, perhaps? 👀

🛒 Shop Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses here

🎥 Check out content created with Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses—🌸Prada Beauty NYFW, 📲 Samsung Galaxy AI NYFW, 👗 Met Museum Sleeping Beauties Exhibit

Read more on The Verge

🦾 Meta AI: Voice, Avatars, and Tools for Fashion & Beauty

📚 What you need to know

Meta AI is upping the ante with new celebrity voices, customizable avatars, and sophisticated editing tools that could change how fashion brands engage digitally.

Key Features:

• 🎨 AI-Powered Editing: Seamlessly change outfits, backgrounds, or objects in photos with simple prompts.

• 📸 Image/Video Generation: Generate visuals for Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger with text prompts plus auto translation for reels dubbing in another language and lip sync movements.

• 🎤 Celebrity Voices: Kristen Bell, Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench bring star power to your content.

• 👗 Real-Time Avatars: Style avatars with virtual fashion for digital runway shows or makeup demos.

💡 Why this matters

• Content Creation Revolution: Fast, high-quality content with AI saves time and elevates brand presence.

• Deeper Engagement: Celebrity voices add emotional resonance, with Meta investing millions in their licensing.

• Fashion-Tech Synergy: Virtual avatars blend physical and digital realms, transforming fashion and beauty experiences.

Read more on Tech Crunch

👾 Fashion Forward with Orion AR Glasses

📚 What You Need to Know

Meta’s Orion AR Glasses are pushing AR boundaries, blending fashion with cutting-edge tech. Still in prototype mode but showcasing massive potential for retail, beauty, and fashion brands.

Key Features Include:

• 🌐 Real-Time AR: Imagine live fashion shows, outfit reviews, or makeup tutorials projected directly into your view.

• ✌️ Gesture Control: Navigate virtual shopping catalogs and menus with a wave—no phone required.

• 👓 Lightweight Design: Stylish, everyday frames with hidden AR tech, making them more wearable than bulky headsets.

💡 Why This Matters

• Retail Reinvention: AR shopping, virtual try-ons, and immersive brand experiences for fashion and beauty.

• Hands-Free Living: No need for screens—engage with digital content seamlessly through AR.

Read more on Tech Crunch

🤯 Meta Connect 2024 Was Mind-Blowing!

For the first time, I’m dedicating a full newsletter to a single event—and it’s worth it. After doing my research and writing this I am confident that next-gen tech is here especially for Beauty & Fashion.

👓 Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses—I’m obsessed! The live translation feature? Game-changer when I lived in China. And those clear limited-edition frames? 🤩

☎️ Hey Meta, when Fashion & Beauty collab? 😏

👓 Tried them yet? What’s stopping you? They’re the best wearable tech. IMHO. 🔗 Shop Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

🎥 UGC & Affiliate Marketing: Should I start sharing tips? If people ask for your faves, why not earn from it? 🔗 Shop my favorites 💄👗🦾🍵 Also, puh-lease go start your ShopMy and let me know you did it. You’re welcome! 🤝

🌱 2024 has been all about growth—learn, test, adapt, repeat.

📣 Announcement: I’m prepping to relaunch my video podcast, The Digital Runway. If you’re up for collabs or sponsorships, hit reply!

🪩 Question of the Week:
💬 What’s your take on Meta Connect’s updates? Let’s chat about how AR and AI are changing the game!

🫡 ✍️ — Janey

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