""You're there together with friends and family and people that you care about, and every time you have to look down at a device or a phone, it breaks that spell," Walt Disney Imagineering President Bruce Vaughn said on the most recent episode of Disney's YouTube series "We Call It Imagineering." But according to Vaughn, Disney has the perfect solution: Meta's AI glasses, which will "reinforce the shared experience" with your family by allowing you to leave your phone in your pocket."
"A Meta demo video posted in September previews exactly how they'd "reinforce the shared experience" on your next Disneyland trip: A park cast member named Beeta gets an unprompted alert from the glasses that says, "Hey Beeta, Pirates of the Caribbean currently has a short wait time. Want directions?" Beeta loudly responds in a mostly empty park, "Yeah, that sounds great. How do I get there?""
Phones cause guests to look down and break the spell of shared family experiences at Disneyland. Disney plans to deploy Meta's AI glasses as a solution, positioning them to reinforce shared experiences by allowing guests to leave phones in pockets. The glasses can overlay images, handle two-way video calls, play social media and audio, show text notifications, and record people without their knowledge, enabling substantial disengagement from physical surroundings. A Meta demo shows proactive ride alerts, turn-by-turn directions, and answers to basic queries like gluten-free food options and merchandise locations. The demo highlights limited reliability and the likelihood of numerous follow-up prompts, raising concerns about distraction and privacy.
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