Meta's v19.2 Firmware Update (lifehacker.com)

Meta has started rolling out firmware V19.2 for first- and second-generation Ray‑Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses, bringing wider Garmin integration and camera improvements. Users can now sync Garmin metrics to photos and videos, ask Meta AI for health information, and receive real‑time spoken fitness updates during activities — features that were previously limited to Oakley Meta Vanguard. Video upgrades include selectable stabilization modes (auto, low, medium, high), 5‑minute clip recording (up from 3), and 1080p@60fps capture. The update installs automatically over the air when glasses are charged and Bluetooth‑paired to your phone, or can be triggered manually via the Meta AI app. For the AI/ML community this matters because it expands the availability and quality of multimodal wearable data — synchronized high‑frame‑rate video plus timestamped biometric telemetry — which boosts potential for training and evaluating activity‑recognition, pose‑estimation, and health‑analytics models. Better stabilization and 60fps video improve motion fidelity for computer vision tasks, while longer clips enable richer temporal modeling. Wider Garmin support and Meta AI health queries also highlight ongoing moves toward sensor fusion and low‑latency on‑device or hybrid inference, raising both technical opportunities (new datasets, edge ML pipelines) and considerations around model accuracy, latency, and user privacy.