Min Woo Lee and D’Angelo Russell proved how Meta, Arccos AI can make golf more awesome

We have all experimented out on the golf course.

This tool. That gadget. Sometimes both the tool and the gadget. Anything that can lower our scores is of interest.

My new obsession in this sense is officially becoming Meta, Oakley Meta Glasses specifically, and the Arccos technology that can make it sing all together.

Imagine you are playing on a round of golf. You don’t even have to pull anything up. No reaching inside of your pocket is required. You simply ask Meta for some advice relative to what is going on around you, and you get the help that you need in a way that is perfectly calibrated to your situation.

Don’t believe me? Look at Min Woo Lee and D’Angelo Russell putting it on display in this match.

To start the match D’Angelo tells Meta that he is going to play a match at the Wynn Golf Club and it immediately gets set for action. Min Woo takes the tee and notes that he doesn’t have his rangefinder, only to learn on the spot that Arccos technology can take care of everything he needs. He goes on to ask Meta how he should play the hole, it responds and tells him how the hole plays like relative to its listing, and he gets going. D’Angelo follows suit.

This is incredible technology, and the fact that it is available so seamlessly during a golf round through sunglasses is so cool.

Here’s the nuts and bolts behind it all, courtesy of Arccos:

Arccos Golf and Meta AI Glasses are now integrated. When you pair the world’s largest on-course tracking platform, built on 1.5 billion tracked shots and 4 trillion data points, with any pair of Meta AI glasses, your Arccos data is available entirely by voice. Just a question, spoken out loud, and a personalized answer delivered through the open-ear speakers built into your frames.

Here’s what that actually looks like on the course.

You’re standing in the middle of the seventh fairway on a Saturday afternoon, and you’ve got one of those lies where the ball is sitting up just enough to make you feel dangerous. The pin is back left, there’s a bunker guarding the front, and the flag is doing that lazy thing where it kind of swirls without committing to a direction. You’ve got a number in your head, but you’re not sure if it’s right. The wind has been weird all day.

Normally, this is where you pull out your phone to check the distance or grab your laser rangefinder. Either way, you’re stepping out of the moment for a few seconds. With the Arccos and Meta integration, you just talk.

“Hey Meta, how far am I from the green?”

And you hear your number. Adjusted for the wind that’s been giving you trouble all day, calibrated to the elevation change you wouldn’t have noticed, and filtered through your personal shot history so the recommendation is based on how far you actually hit your 7-iron, not how far you think you hit it.

You never took your eyes off the target. You never broke your routine. You just asked a question and got a better answer than you’ve ever had access to, delivered in the time it takes to pull a club out of the bag.

I’m playing golf this Friday and am aching for the process of my shot calibration to be this smooth. This is the stuff that the Jetsons had going on everywhere, and now we live with the same technology in our actual lives.

How cool is this?!