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Meta launches new Meta Glasses starting at $299, dropping Ray-Ban branding to achieve a lower price point, in three styles including a Kylie Jenner collaboration.
Meta launched three new smart glasses models starting at $299, including the Kylie Jenner-collaborated Starfire edition, with customizable frames, integrated AI assistant, and improved comfort features.
A critical opinion piece arguing that smart glasses are a dead end due to both technical and fashion/cultural issues, highlighting the tacky CEOs promoting them.
The article questions whether current AI benchmarks are adequate for evaluating AI in real-time, background contexts like voice calls, autonomous driving, and smart glasses, as they assume a prepared user.
Italian startup Lorika launches Ontop, colorful clip-on frame covers for Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, aiming to add protection and a louder design aesthetic. The $35-$40 polycarbonate covers do not block cameras or speakers.
Snap launched its new Snap Specs AR smart glasses at AWE 2026, priced at $2,195 with 4-hour battery life and Qualcomm chips, competing with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Snap's new $2,195 Specs AR glasses aim to be a fashion statement, but their bulky design may limit everyday appeal despite celebrity endorsements.
Snap unveils its $2,195 AI-powered Specs, with CEO Evan Spiegel declaring them the computer of the future.
Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Reality Elite for mixed-reality glasses and the START toolkit for AI wearables, aiming to power the next computing platform beyond smartphones with over 40 AI wearable designs in development.
Snapchat unveils lightweight see-through AR glasses that integrate a powerful computer, marking a notable consumer wearable release.
Snap introduced SPECS augmented reality glasses at Augmented World Expo 2026, featuring a lightweight standalone design with liquid crystal on silicon display technology and electrochromic lenses for everyday use.
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for smart glasses, offering significant performance improvements in GPU, CPU, NPU, and battery life, hinting at more powerful and cooler smart glasses.
Snap has launched its new AR Specs smart glasses for consumers at $2,195, featuring a 51-degree field of view, four-hour battery life, and AI-powered visual assistance, with preorders available now.
Snap is launching its consumer AR glasses, Specs, for $2,195 with preorders available now and shipping this fall. The standalone glasses feature dual processors, a 51-degree field of view, and up to 20 hours of total battery life with the charging case.
GlassKit UI is an AI-ready React UI library designed for Meta's Ray-Ban Display smart glasses.
Meta is working with Rank One Computing, a Pentagon supplier known for surveillance tools, to prototype face recognition for its smart glasses, raising concerns about the convergence of military-grade surveillance and consumer technology.
Europe is considering new regulations to address privacy concerns raised by smart glasses.
Meta removed unreleased facial recognition code from its Meta AI app after WIRED revealed it was embedded in the app, despite previously denying the feature's existence.
Meta removed face-recognition code from its Meta AI app after WIRED exposed the unreleased NameTag system, which was designed to identify people using smart glasses.
A security researcher discovered that Meta's Stella companion app for smart glasses (v273.0.0.21) contains a fully assembled, functional facial recognition pipeline—including three on-device models, a biometric embedding database, and a notification system—that is dormant on stock accounts but operable when invoked directly. The pipeline can detect faces, generate 2048-dimension embeddings, and fire 'Person Recognized' notifications, raising significant privacy concerns even though Meta has not been observed activating it for regular users.