Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses person nary cameras. | Photo by Brett Putman / The Verge

Walking astir Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting astute glasses successful each sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked quality here, a tech bubble wherever "pervert glasses" are not a concern.

Outside Connect, the nationalist backlash against wearable surveillance tech - a catchall word that encompasses not conscionable astute glasses, but besides smartwatches and AI pendants - is gaining steam. So it's incredibly funny timing that this year, the institution is launching Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses: astute glasses infused with Meta AI, but with nary camera for signaling others.

To perceive Meta archer it, that's a coincidence. Audio-only glasses person been years …

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