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Speaking of, Bosworth says Meta has heard feedback that some folks don’t care for the camera capabilities on its smart glasses and would prefer audio-only glasses. “There’s a market demand for that product for sure.” Bosworth then said, “one thing at a time.” The Meta Fury. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Earlier this month, WIRED discovered code … Read more
Babe, wake up, they’re making phone cases for smart glasses now. A suite of bright clip-on frame covers for Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are the first product from Lorika, an Italian startup that has described itself as “a team of entrepreneurs under 30.” They’re called Ontop because they go—you guessed it—on top of the glasses … Read more
Snap—maker of the popular social app Snapchat—has a new pair of augmented-reality smart glasses called Specs. For real this time. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the new glasses at an event during the Augmented World Expo (AWE) tech conference in Long Beach, California. As Snap frames it, this isn’t a prototype or developer device—it’s the … Read more
Snap—maker of the popular social app Snapchat—has a new pair of augmented-reality smart glasses called Specs. For real this time. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the new glasses at an event during the Augmented World Expo (AWE) tech conference in Long Beach, California. As Snap frames it, this isn’t a prototype or developer device—it’s the … Read more
One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips … Read more
Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones, according to a WIRED analysis of the company’s software. Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when … Read more