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> It’s impossible for a 3rd party smartwatch to send text messages, or perform actions on notifications (like dismissing, muting, replying) and many, many other
by film42 2y ago
> It’s impossible for a 3rd party smartwatch to send text messages, or perform actions on notifications (like dismissing, muting, replying) and many, many other things.
Unless I'm crazy, I think I've used my Meta Ray-Bans to do all of these things at some point. So is this a watch only limitation that Meta was able to avoid?
- nickthegreek 2y agoIt might be because Meta iOS app is handling some of that handoff and its not possible to do these action purely via the BT api? It seems like in the end they recognize if that had an iOS app they could accomplish some of their wishlist items. However, there are other valid critiques here.
- rickdeckard 2y agoSeems to be correct, according to [0] the user needs to link the Meta View app with WhatsApp, not sure if the link is then made on the cloud or on the local device...: "Use the Meta View app to connect Ray-Ban Stories and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to WhatsApp on your phone." [0] https://faq.whatsapp.com/836703167795647?locale=en_US&cms_id=836703167795647 https://faq.whatsapp.com/836703167795647?locale=en_US&cms_id...
- kemayo 2y agoIt seems to say that it can do it: https://www.meta.com/help/ai-glasses/647079267216457/ https://www.meta.com/help/ai-glasses/647079267216457/
- petemir 2y agoOn (FB) Messenger and WhatsApp. It's not the same.
- jimbokun 2y agoSo just like Apple they are leveraging integration with other products they own.
- _ea1k 2y agoThat sounds like FB Messenger and WhatsApp. I'm guessing they do some server side workaround that wouldn't work for regular text messages or Apple-y messages.