Ray-Ban Meta Audio lasts all day and fits better, but its one button does little
Close to half the battery was left after five hours of music and an hour-long call, but its one button still can't answer the phone.
Tuesday, Oct 6
Ray-Ban Meta glasses now give turn-by-turn walking directions
Ray-Ban Meta glasses will now talk you through a walk, so the phone can stay in your pocket.
Friday, Sep 25
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 costs $70 more, and most of what's new comes to the Gen 2 too
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 costs $70 more than Gen 2 for one extra battery hour and a new button.
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Meta will let you keep your glasses' camera requests out of AI training
Meta's glasses opt-out covers your camera footage but not your audio. Smile, you're still training the model.
Thursday, Sep 24
Meta Ray-Ban Display goes on sale in the UK and Canada, and online for the first time
Meta Ray-Ban Display leaves the US for the first time: £749 in the UK, CA$1,149 in Canada, and you can finally order it online.
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 is out today at $449 with 9 hours of battery
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 adds an hour of battery life and ships a Blackpink collab for $399.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio drops the camera for $349 and ships October 13
Meta stripped the camera from Ray-Ban Meta, cut the weight to 43 g, added 3 hours of battery, and it's indistinguishable from regular sunglasses.
Wednesday, Sep 23
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Meta heads into Connect on Wednesday with a privacy problem to fix
Meta's camera-free Luna frames have six mics and zero lenses, the creep problem was real enough to ship around it.
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Meta is testing Muse as the assistant on its smart glasses
Meta's next Ray-Ban assistant gives turn-by-turn directions, IDs songs, tracks workouts, and pays for things without touching your phone.
Thursday, Sep 10
An app now warns you when Meta smart glasses are nearby
A Polish developer's app listens for the Bluetooth signature of Meta's glasses and tells you they are nearby. Five thousand people have it.
Wednesday, Sep 2
Meta disabled the cameras on thousands of tampered Ray-Bans
Meta killed the cameras on 7,000 pairs because their owners had disabled the light that says you're filming.
Tuesday, Sep 1
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Now Launch Walking Directions By Voice
Meta's Ray-Ban glasses now give turn-by-turn walking directions through the frames. Took three years, but here we are.
Friday, Aug 28
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A New York club will throw you out for smart glasses in your bag
AntiZuck hit No. 3 on the US paid App Store just to detect Meta glasses nearby.
Thursday, Aug 20
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ICE banned smart glasses while budgeting for its own
ICE banned Ray-Ban Meta glasses after agents kept showing up to arrests wearing them in record mode.
Monday, Aug 17
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Meta's face recognition work keeps surfacing, now in a patent
The patent application was filed in February. It is the fourth time this year Meta has been found working on identifying faces.
Instagram’s smart glasses crackdown left the videos up
Instagram said a month ago it'd clear these out. Dozens are still up, and some only went after a reporter flagged them.
Wednesday, Aug 12
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A German group wants selling Meta's glasses treated as a crime
Germany's filing criminal charges over Ray-Ban Meta glasses recording bystanders without consent, and contractors in Kenya reviewed the intimate footage.
Tuesday, Aug 11
England and Wales will confiscate Meta glasses at court
Every criminal, civil and family court in England and Wales confiscates the glasses at the door. Meta didn't want to comment.
Friday, Aug 7
Wetherspoons and Soho House now restrict Meta's camera glasses
Wetherspoons will not let you film staff with Meta's glasses, and Soho House can ask members to take them off.