Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
… EssilorLuxottica, which manufactures the Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses with Meta, did not respond to a request for comment. …
Search
The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
… The man in the glasses, she adds, “didn't seem to understand that it could be very off-putting to record someone first without asking.” This type of encounter is becoming more common, to judge by a proliferation of social media accounts in which content creators use smart glasses to record their pu… …
Meta Glasses Are Comfortable, Functional, and Make My Spouse Recoil in Fear
… 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. …
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
… 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… …
Top stories
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
… And then there's a process of you, as an AI consumer, asking a question to ChatGPT or Claude. The process of you pinging that question and getting an answer in return is what we think of when we talk about inference. …
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
… Record Low Morale Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore Meet the Sad Wives of AI You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at @zoeschiffer, and Leah Feiger on Bluesky at @le… …