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Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

First reported by The Verge ·

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What happened

Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern.

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