Meta Platforms is expected to spotlight its smart glasses business during its Q2 2026 earnings call on July 29, as sales of Ray-Ban Meta glasses more than tripled in 2025 to surpass 7 million units, u…
Apple is expected to unveil its N50 smart glasses at WWDC 17 in June 2027, but faces a privacy challenge as the device will include a hidden camera. According to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman, App…
Activist collective Everyone Hates Elon hijacked a London bus stop poster for Kylie Jenner's Meta AI glasses, replacing the ad with the message 'we're always watching' to protest Meta's reported plans…
Apple will unveil smart glasses at WWDC in June 2026 with a target release by end of 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, as the company grapples with privacy concerns that have given Meta's Ray-Ban…
Meta's $300 AI-enhanced smart glasses, equipped with dual cameras, microphones, and speakers, are drawing backlash for making wearers appear creepy and disrupting social settings, according to users a…
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have sparked renewed privacy concerns due to their concealed cameras, which allow users to record people without consent, echoing the company's long-standing pattern of pr…
Apple is targeting a WWDC 2027 debut for its smart glasses, codenamed Project Atlas, with a late-2027 market launch, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The glasses will feature onboard cameras, mic…
Meta has paused its plan to charge a $19.99 monthly subscription for the Conversation Focus feature on Ray-Ban smart glasses after user backlash, Meta spokesperson Tyler Yee confirmed to The Verge. Th…
Meta is banning Instagram videos shot on its Ray-Ban smart glasses that harass people, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced last week, after the glasses earned the nickname 'pervert glasses' for bein…
Meta and Snapchat are facing a privacy backlash over their AI-powered smart glasses, with critics drawing parallels to the failed Google Glass. Meta updated its glasses after reports that owners paid …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video on Thursday framing the company's AI efforts as an extension of its original mission to connect people, using nostalgic imagery of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebo…
A Ray-Ban executive responded with humor to spoof ads in London that replaced Meta smart glasses advertisements with warnings calling the device 'the biggest advance in pervert technology since the tr…
Halliday launched the G2 smart glasses, priced at $599 with shipments starting September 2026, which omit cameras to avoid privacy concerns but record audio in meetings using AI voice commands. The gl…
Activist group Everyone Hates Elon altered a London bus stop ad for Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses featuring Kylie Jenner, adding a lenticular overlay that turns her face into a bug-eyed monster when vi…
Child safety experts in the UK warn that Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses enable covert filming of minors, with footage potentially feeding generative AI models that produce child sexual abuse material. Th…
Activists in London altered a Meta billboard featuring Kylie Jenner to warn about potential secret surveillance from AI-powered smart glasses, sparking debate over privacy risks of wearable cameras an…
Samsung will unveil its Galaxy-branded smart glasses at the Galaxy Unpacked event in London on July 22, 2026, built with Google and Qualcomm. The audio-only eyewear uses Google's Gemini AI and Android…
A new category of wearable devices combining open-ear headphones with built-in cameras is emerging, with products like Auriview's X1 and Rollme's Aircam offering AI-powered computer vision and audio p…
Pop star Lorde told a crowd at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid that Meta's AI glasses are "not sexy" and urged people not to buy them, citing concerns about reality and privacy. Meta's Ray-Ban smart g…
Meta has sold over 7 million AI-enabled smart glasses in 2025, up from 2 million cumulative units in 2023-2024, and plans dozens more models including codenamed projects Modelo and Luna, but faces gro…