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Jason England

I already paid $300 for Meta’s smart glasses — now it's charging $20 a month for a key feature

A front view of Meta Ray-Ban (gen 2) smart glasses.

We’ve seen shrinkflation come to a lot of tech products this year, and now it’s Meta’s turn because one of its smart glasses' most important features is now being held hostage behind a paywall.

Conversation Focus helps a lot of people I know with their minor hearing problems, or in helping them to better understand conversations in loud, chaotic environments. It runs entirely locally on-device (no cloud AI needed), but that hasn’t stopped Zuck & Co. from rate-limiting it: no more usage unless you pay $20 a month for the company’s premium plan.

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