01 jul 2026
Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses
Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription . In a help article , the company insists that it won't require a subscription to use your glasses, period; it's merely erecting a "rate limit" for certain AI features. Even premium subscribers will only get 15 hours of Conversation Focus per month under that "rate limit," it claims.
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Meta's Conversation Focus feature for smart glasses is now only free for three hours a month.
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Meta puts rate limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature
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