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Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern. Outside Connect, the public backlash against wearable surveillance…

This article was originally published by The Verge and is republished here under license.

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses have no cameras. | Photo by Brett Putman / The Verge

Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone’s sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It’s a marked difference here, a tech bubble where “pervert glasses” are not a concern.

Outside Connect, the public backlash against wearable surveillance tech – a catchall term that encompasses not just smart glasses, but also smartwatches and AI pendants – is gaining steam. So it’s incredibly curious timing that this year, the company is launching Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses: smart glasses infused with Meta AI, but with no camera for recording others.

To hear Meta tell it, that’s a coincidence. Audio-only glasses have been years …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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