Meta's Glasses Bet on Always-On Privacy | Durham News

Durham News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 9, 2026 · 2m

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are flying off shelves—Meta calls them one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever—thanks to a simple safety feature: a blinking light that warns others when the camera’s on. But just days after locking down that feature with legal threats against anyone who tries to disable it, leaks reveal Meta’s testing “super sensing” prototypes that would constantly record audio and photos every few seconds, turning the glasses into always-on memory devices. While the current model thrives amid Reality Labs’ $80B losses, these new prototypes ditch the warning light…