WorldPingThat's one way to avoid the whole surreptitious recording issues.
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Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera
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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.
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WorldPingThe Ray-Ban Audio come sans camera so you don't have to worry about anyone accusing you of being a glasshole.
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WorldPingSomewhere, a contractor just breathed a sigh of relief.
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WorldPingThe company is bringing its Private Processing encryption service to its much-maligned smart glasses.
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WorldPingAt its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.
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Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect.
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