CALIFORNIA: Instagram is handing Meta Glasses wearers a serious upgrade, rolling out new interactive formats and editing tools built specifically for footage shot on Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Meta Glasses. The update promises to turn raw, hands-free clips into properly polished stories, no fiddly phone-juggling required.
The headline act is spin view, a format that ditches the static story frame altogether. Followers can physically rotate their phones to pan through the wearer’s full field of view, effectively stepping into the scene rather than just watching it scroll past.
Then there is multi-cam, which stitches together footage shot simultaneously on a phone and a pair of glasses into a single synced story. Think hands busy at work through the glasses lens, while the phone camera captures the creator narrating to the audience, two perspectives, one seamless clip.
Instagram has also thrown in a fresh editing toolkit built specifically for glasses footage. Expand lets creators reframe wide-angle POV shots to keep the action centre stage. Audio tools mute background noise and boost voice clarity, handy for narrating in a crowd. And speed controls let users slow footage down for tutorial-style detail or speed it up to inject energy into the action.
Getting to the new tools is straightforward enough. Upload a story as usual, select footage shot on Meta AI glasses, spotted via a glasses icon in the gallery, then tap the same icon on the edit screen to pull up the new toolkit at the bottom.
With spin view, multi-cam and a proper editing suite now in play, Instagram is betting that Meta Glasses stop being a novelty gadget and start becoming a genuine storytelling weapon, one spin, sync and speed tweak at a time.
