The Information‘s Abram Brown interviewed Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, for his experience as a vocal user of Meta and Ray-Ban’s new AI-powered smart sunglasses. As an early-adopter, Brian has also worn the infamous Google Glass and Bose audio-only Frames in the past. While he skipped the first generation of the Meta Ray-Ban glasses, he jumped in on phase two because of the higher video and still image resolution, Spatial Audio and array of advanced mics, and most importantly, the integrated AI-functionality.

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A month or so ago, Brian Solis wore some flashy bling to dinner with friends in Lake Tahoe: his new Ray-Ban Meta glasses. “I didn’t wear them for them to be a topic of conversation,” said Solis, head of global innovation at ServiceNow, an enterprise software company. “But they were a topic of conversation.”

He showed off the black, slimmish, Wayfarer-style specs to his friends and demoed their technical capabilities: five mics, spatial audio, a voice-controlled AI assistant and a 12-megapixel camera for video and photos. Solis had originally worn the glasses thinking they’d be great for snapping some candid shots at dinner: The group hadn’t seen each other in a while. (“And we had a sunset-view table,” he said.)

By the time the evening ended, his friends had developed glasses envy. And since? “They’ve all gotten a pair,” said Solis, who often has found himself evangelizing the device to others. “If I was earning a commission from doing it, it would be a notable amount of money.”

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