Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party

Meta has patented AI glasses that use facial recognition to identify people and automatically compile highlight reels from events like dinner parties.

Meta patented a system for AI glasses that uses facial recognition to identify people and automatically generate highlight reels of social events. Published Thursday, the patent describes the glasses capturing a series of video clips throughout an evening, then compiling them into a curated summary—for example, of a dinner party. The technology aims to streamline personal video editing by leveraging real-time identification and scene selection.