A filing submitted by Meta to the US Patent and Trademark Office shows that Meta has continued developing features that use facial recognition in conjunction with its controversial smart glasses. The application for the patent was submitted in February and made public this week. There’s no indication of how long the approval process could take
There’s an ongoing arms race to protect identities and privacy in the age of facial recognition, biometric scanning and data collection. Now, some of those concerns are coming from the influx of wearables, namely, smart glasses, and how to go about protecting oneself from being filmed in public. Some joke about singing Disney songs, others
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Face computers are on the upswing, as companies, massive and tiny, are all vying for nuggets in the smart-glasses gold rush. That also means the industry is garnering its fair share of criticism, mostly focusing on the fact that creeps can abuse camera-equipped smart glasses to capture photos and videos of people without their knowledge
As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company is also debating how to address consumer privacy concerns, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman reports that Apple has pushed back the launch target from early 2027, and the glasses will now be unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2027 and available
There is a new A pair of cameraless smart glasses in the city: the Halliday G2, designed for listening to workplace meetings, absorbing what’s happening and summarizing all the interesting parts, as if they were always-listening wearable devices. Halliday says the microphones can be turned on for meetings, using AI voice commands, or making phone