Meta Ray-Bans

Meta's glasses kill the camera if you cover the light
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Meta's glasses kill the camera if you cover the light

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Jul 8
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Meta's smart glasses are testing police surveillance tech

Meta's smart glasses can now identify strangers from a kilometer away, using the same tech that tracks criminal suspects.

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Meta's Ray-Ban had secret face ID built in

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses had working facial recognition one debug command away from live. They removed the code, not the camera.

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Meta's smart glasses were already watching

Meta hid working facial recognition in its $799 glasses for months, then called its approach 'thoughtful.' The code disagreed.

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Meta opens Ray-Ban Display to outside developers

Developers can now build Ray-Ban Display apps in HTML, and the first prototypes are already a YouTube viewer and a plane-spotting camera.

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Meta Ray-Ban glasses get a developer program

Meta's $800 glasses now run third-party apps. The first one unlocks your car with your face, so that's going well.

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Samsung's firmware leak confirms Galaxy Watch 9 coming in July

Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 could get a budget variant this summer, which is a sentence nobody expected to type.

May 26
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Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer announced with prescription support

Meta's new Blayzer puts smart glasses on the 2 billion people who actually need glasses. The previous audience was everyone else.

May 25
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Google's smart glasses give Meta five months

Google arrives in five months with three things Meta's Ray-Bans can't do. The clock is running and Meta hasn't shipped a patch.

May 20
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Meta Connect 2026: Ray-Ban Gen 3 & a New Watch?

Meta's annual hardware event is September 23. New Ray-Bans and reportedly a smartwatch are coming.

May 13
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Meta is teasing glasses and a watch together

Meta's September 23 Connect event will test whether Zuckerberg can sell a wearable ecosystem while quietly closing the studios that build it.

May 13
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Meta Gave Everyone the Best Reason to Buy Ray-Bans Without Buying Ray-Bans

Meta's live camera AI — point your phone at anything and ask what it's looking at in real time — is either a brilliant on-ramp to the Ray-Ban glasses or a quiet argument against buying them.

May 12
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Meta's Smart Glasses Are in Court Over Who Watches Your Footage

A class action lawsuit alleges Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses send user footage to overseas contractors for review, despite privacy marketing that promised user control. Meta denies wrongdoing.

May 6
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