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Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles

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Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles

The new wearables come at a time of uncertainty for smart glasses, which are facing backlash over privacy concerns

Meta announced an advanced new set of virtual reality glasses and a collection of new smart glasses Wednesday, including an audio-only version without a camera.

At the firm’s Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, executives said the new Ray-Ban Meta models set new standards for battery life and weight. They said the new glasses with screens in the lenses squeeze capabilities previously reserved for a full headset into a light set of spectacles that rest on a user’s ears.

The new wearables come at a time of uncertainty for the smart glasses category, which is broadly facing a backlash from sceptics and privacy campaigners around their ability to record video, frequently being dubbed “perv glasses” or “spy glasses”. Meta’s smart glasses are the most popular gadget in the category.

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio AI glasses seem tailored for the time. Lacking a camera, they may help avert some privacy worries, though Meta claims they have been in the works for several years. The glasses have microphones and speakers for music, calls and interacting with the company’s AI assistant, taking the recognizable form of Ray Ban’s Clubmaster or Burbank styles. The new versions are thinner and lighter than the camera versions and last up to 12 hours on battery and will cost £319 (€349/A$529).

The new Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses, which do sport cameras, have longer battery life than their predecessors, lasting up to nine hours with support for Dolby Atmos audio.


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