Meta is building a pair of smart glasses that cannot take a picture, per The Information. The glasses are codenamed Luna, Meta could unveil them as soon as next Wednesday or Thursday at its Connect developer conference, and shipments are targeted for October. Meta has not announced anything.
Our Meta glasses roadmap already records that the company is considering a pair with no camera, and that a pair codenamed Luna is targeted for autumn 2026. The new reporting ties those two things together: they are the same pair of glasses.
Take the camera out and you remove most of what made these glasses a problem in public. People have used them to record strangers with no warning. A small trade grew up around disabling the recording light so the wearer could film without anyone noticing. Venues started turning them away. There is also unease about Meta using footage from the glasses to train its AI without asking the people wearing them, let alone the people in frame.
So the camera was the feature and the camera was the liability. Luna is Meta agreeing with its critics.
The glasses reportedly carry six microphones, which is what lets you talk to Meta AI and to Muse, Meta's new consumer AI agent, without touching anything. There is a side button to summon Meta AI, and speakers much like the ones on the current frames. You can still ask the glasses a question and hear an answer. You just can't point them at somebody.
That is a real product rather than a stripped one, and it tells you something about what Meta thinks these are for. A camera makes glasses a recording device. Microphones and a speaker make them a way to talk to an assistant while your hands are busy. The second thing is a much easier sell to the person sitting across from you.
October is a target, and Meta has missed one inside the last year: our own roadmap records a pair codenamed Modelo that was targeted for June 2026 and never launched.
The interesting part is that Apple has arrived at the same problem and answered it differently. Our Apple Glasses roadmap carries reporting that Apple has prototyped a camera that can read objects but cannot take photographs, that an LED will light up whenever its cameras record, and that Apple is testing privacy protections it does not ship in any product today. Apple is trying to build a camera nobody minds. Meta is reportedly taking the camera out.
Both companies are answering the same question, which is whether a stranger will tolerate you wearing a computer on your face. Meta is first to market with the blunt answer.
The same report says Meta is preparing a demo of hologram-like video calls on Phoenix, its upcoming AR glasses, with Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly deciding to show it. So Connect could carry both halves at once: the pair that does less to be welcome anywhere, and the pair that does far more and is nowhere near shipping.
If Luna appears next week, watch the price and watch whether Meta keeps the recording light on a device with nothing to record. The first tells you whether this is a cheaper way in or a same-price swap. The second tells you whether Meta has understood why people were bothered.