Meta launches AI smartglasses amid privacy concerns

Meta is flooding the market with AI-enabled, camera-equipped smartglasses made in partnership with EssilorLuxottica.

Privacy advocates criticize the devices for enabling surreptitious recording, including disabling of the white recording light.

Meta donated over 100,000 pairs of smartglasses to blind veterans and partnered with Kylie Jenner for promotion.

Meta employees were asked to remove the smartglasses at a trial where CEO Mark Zuckerberg was testifying.

Meta envisions smartglasses as the dominant form factor for non-smartphone AI devices, citing a large addressable market of nearly two billion glasses wearers.