Meta présente une nouvelle gamme de lunettes intelligentes, pour la première fois entièrement sous sa propre marque. Une manière pour la firme de casser les prix alors que Google et Samsung s’apprêtent à lancer leurs propres modèles.

The smart glasses are available in several countries starting today in a variety of color and lens combinations.

Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won't be a phone.

For over a decade now, Snap has been working on this device. Now the glasses are finally here. So what stands out on first impression?

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 out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag. The version published the day of WIRED’s report included several code libraries explicitly named for face recognition. Friday’s release includes none of them.

Andy Stone, Meta's vice president of communications, told WIRED on Monday that the feature is purely exploratory, adding: “No final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything.”

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