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Are smart glasses over? Samsung and Google better hope not, but neither are doing anything to change it. By •

Smart glasses are slowly becoming more than just another piece of technology you wear on your face. Meta has already shown that there’s an appetite for them, and other companies are now experimenting with different ways to make smart glasses useful. While some are focused on cameras and AI-powered features, Even Realities is taking a…

Earlier this year, my colleague Jason England put the original Xreal One Pro AR glasses head-to-head against one of thebestpremium pairs of AR glasses, the Viture Beast.

I’ve spent a week wearing Meta’s new Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and I have a confession. At first, I wasn’t particularly impressed.

Smart glasses have always asked people around the wearer to trust a tiny light. Meta has strengthened that safeguard on its Ray-Ban glasses, including blocking cameras when someone tampers with the capture LED. Now, a handful of owners are raising a different concern: Their glasses may be listening when they were never asked to.

Pulling out your phone to check which way to turn somewhat defeats the point of wearing smart glasses. Meta tackled that problem last month with one of the more useful upgrades yet for its Ray-Ban smart glasses: turn-by-turn walking navigation. That feature arrived with the v128 update alongside several other improvements, and just as that…

Smart glasses are the hot new category that every major tech company is trying to jump on. Just last week, Samsung took one step closer to launching its first effort into the segment. However, as smart glasses continue to inch toward going mainstream, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to look past the growing concerns surrounding the…

If there was one thing that was obvious this from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses.

At the Meta Connect 2026 keynote, Mark Zuckerberg announced a raft of new devices: VR glasses that could rival the Apple Vision Pro, audio-only smart glasses, and even a clever-looking pendant to house its new Muse AI. However, there was one thing that I was waiting to hear, which never came.

If there’s one device you don’t want to overheat, it’s a wearable in close proximity to your body. Smart glasses may be the biggest fear of the lot — the prospect of burning around your face and eyes is not a pleasant one. But owners of the INMO Air 3 are now in that boat,…