The glasses, code-named Luna, follow months of lawsuits, probes and police warnings over Meta's camera-equipped Ray-Bans.
Meta is developing a pair of smart glasses with no camera at all, The Information reported, citing unnamed people with knowledge of the plans. The model is known inside the company as Luna and could go on sale in October at the earliest, in two styles code-named Clubmaster and Burbank.
Decrypt, summarizing the report, says Luna carries six built-in microphones for talking to Meta AI and Muse, the company's new consumer AI agent. A button on the frame calls up the assistant, and the temples are slimmer than on current models. Luna gives up the hands-free photos and video, shot from the wearer's point of view, that the Ray-Ban line is known for.
The Ray-Bans drew a BBC investigation in January that found women being filmed covertly, with the footage posted to TikTok without their consent. Class-action suits followed. In April an ACLU-led coalition asked Meta to drop plans to add facial recognition to the line, and in May the Texas attorney general opened an investigation into the glasses.
In internal memos, the NYPD and Homeland Security warned that the glasses could be used to record inside jails and government buildings. ICE has barred its own staff from wearing them at work.
The Information says Meta might show Luna at Connect, its developer conference scheduled for September 23 and 24 on its Menlo Park campus.