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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month...

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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses
Source: The Verge

Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription.

In a help article, the company insists that it won't require a subscription to use your glasses, period; it's merely erecting a "rate limit" for certain AI features. Even premium subscribers will only get 15 hours of Conversation Focus per month under that "rate limit," it claims.

Problem is, Meta's rate limit is ridiculous. The Conversatio …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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