Accessibility paywall on Meta Glasses ‘paused’ after condemnation [U]

Meta has paused plans to apply a paywall to the accessibility feature on its Ray-Ban Meta Glasses after widespread condemnation, the company announced. The social network had retroactively limited free usage of the AI-powered feature on hardware already sold to customers, drawing criticism as 'ridiculous'.

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses and the latest cheaper non-designer option are sold on the basis of the built-in AI features, but in early July the company announced a “ridiculous” limit on the free usage you can make of an accessibility https://9to5mac.com/guides/accessibility/ feature. Effectively, Meta https://9to5mac.com/guides/meta/ has retroactively applied a paywall to a hardware product it already sold to customers. Update: The social network has now said it is “pausing” plans to paywall the feature – see the end of the piece.