A 'Meta One Premium' subscription is now required for more hours of access to select advanced features of the company's smart glasses, starting with Conversation Focus.
Until now, all built-in software features of Meta smart glasses have been entirely free to use. But as a Meta support page describes, the company is moving to a model where "certain features" have limited free usage and longer usage if you pay for 'Meta One Premium'.
Meta One is the company's subscription that offers extra usage and features across all its main services: Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Meta AI. Meta One started rolling out last month in select regions, with two subscription tiers and the following stated benefits:
According to TechCrunch , Meta One Plus will be priced at $8/month in the US, while Meta One Premium will be $20/month.
(Meta One should not be confused with Meta Verified, a separate per-platform subscription that offers a blue checkmark on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.)
According to the support page, Meta One Premium will also offer 15 hours of Conversation Focus , compared to 3 hours for non-subscribers.
Conversation Focus is an accessibility feature that amplifies the voice of the person in front of you. It started rolling out in early access back in January , the result of more than six years of research into “perceptual superpowers” at Meta.
Despite the widespread outrage already seen around this decision, we should point out that many consumer tech devices require a subscription for select features.