Meta adds $20 subscription to the Ray-Ban Meta's best accessibility feature
Android Police 2026-07-01 10:05:31
Context: Meta has introduced a $20 monthly subscription for its Conversation Focus feature on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which helps users hear conversations more clearly by amplifying sound. The feature, available since 2025, is now restricted to three hours of use per month for non-subscribers, with subscribers able to use it for 15 hours per month. This move has sparked surprise, given that Conversation Focus does not rely on Meta's AI technology.
Key Facts
- The Conversation Focus feature on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses uses the device's microphones and speakers to amplify sound, allowing users to hear conversations more clearly in noisy environments.
- Non-subscribers to Meta One Premium are limited to three hours of Conversation Focus use per month, which translates to approximately six minutes of use per day.
- Subscribers to Meta One Premium, priced at $20 per month, can use Conversation Focus for 15 hours per month, increasing their daily usage to around 30 minutes.
- The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have received new features in software Version 26, including support for Instagram Instants and WhatsApp voice chats, a battery saver mode, and 14 new translation languages.
- Despite the subscription model, Meta emphasizes that "no subscription is required to use AI glasses" and that all features have "free monthly usage" limits, although the extent of these limits varies by feature.