Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you’re good to go. But it turns out you’ll need to…

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Meta is testing face-recognition software built by a company that sells surveillance tools to police departments and the United States military, as it explores bringing…

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

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…

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses |

Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn.…

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition…

Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses after years-long hiatus |

In Brief Posted: 5:00 AM PDT · April 10, 2026 Snap has announced a new partnership between its AR-glasses-focused subsidiary, Specs, and chipmaker Qualcomm, as…

Nothing's AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds |

In Brief Posted: 5:33 AM PDT · April 1, 2026 London-based hardware company Nothing is on track to release a pair of smart glasses next…

Best Optical Glasses & Rx Frames (2026): Quay Named Top Stylish Prescription Eyewear by Expert Consumers

/PRNewswire/ — Expert Consumers has recognized Quay as a top stylish prescription eyewear brand in its 2026 feature on the best optical glasses and RX…

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses |

One of the chief problems with “luxury surveillance” devices, like smart glasses with baked-in video recording cameras, is that they often look indistinguishable from regular…

Rokid Integrates Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT in Major Update to International Smart Glasses in Open Ecosystem Push

/PRNewswire/ — Rokid, a global pioneer in AI-powered smart eyewear and human–computer interaction, has released a significant software update for the international version of its…