… It’s common for Instagram accounts to do street photography in the area and she prides herself on her fashion—that day, she was in “a nice sundress and a very big stylish hat,” she tells WIRED. “It was all very cute until the end of the conversation, when one of them was like, ‘So, these glasses ha… …
… Smart glasses are a newish medium for tech to enter, and they're already available in devices like Meta’s glasses. Google has already shown off this capability in its upcoming Android XR glasses. …
… Though not yet enabled, NameTag sits inside a Meta AI companion app that's been downloaded over 50 million times and is necessary for use of key features of its smart glasses, including Ray-Ban and Oakley models. …
… Meta is also urged to disclose any known instances of its wearables being used in stalking, harassment, or domestic violence cases; disclose any past or ongoing discussions with federal law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, about … …
… If you do chicken out, check out our buying guides to the Best Smart Glasses or the Best Workout Headphones for more. Last year, Meta upgraded the original Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarers that became a smash hit. These are Meta’s entry-level glasses, and they come in a variety of lens styles. …
… The best smart glasses let you listen to music, answer texts hands-free, or teach you about the world, even as you're looking at it. And they're getting more popular: Meta and Ray-Ban sold more than 7 million pairs of smart glasses in 2025. …
… A Primer on Metasurfaces Metalenz’s optical metasurfaces technology is a flat-lens system that uses a fraction of the space of traditional multi-lens elements in most smartphones. …
… As Meta shifts its focus to artificial intelligence and its Ray-Ban smart glasses, it has drastically cut its investments in its metaverse divisions, including stopping updates to very popular services like Supernatural Fitness. “Meta’s pivot on Horizon Worlds is the predicted and inevitable outcom… …
… "It’s much, much easier to stand on the shoulders of giants.” The dominant devices these days—smartphones, laptops, watches, even smart glasses and VR—are born of designs that precede the AI era. …
… If you have a version of the glasses without the display, you can see those images on your phone or your Android-powered smartwatch. WIRED’s Julian Chokkattu got to demo all of the new glasses—even the unfinished ones—and has a more in-depth look at what’s headed for your face this year and beyond.