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Meta Connect, the company’s annual event dedicated to all things AR, VR, AI and the metaverse is just days away. And once again, it seems like it will be a big year for smart glasses and AI. This year, the event will take a slightly different format than in the past. Mark Zuckerberg is to kick things off with an …

People who develop presbyopia know the daily juggle between reading and distance vision. The eyes change with age, and close work stops being crisp without help. Bifocals have been the go to fix for centuries. Benjamin Franklin described his own split lenses in a famous letter written in 1784, and the core idea has stayed much the same since. …

Selena Gomez shared a new Instagram carousel on Wednesday, September 10. Her latest post commemorated the release of Only Murders in the Building season 5. It also included a selfie with her OMITB co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin. Selena Gomez went pantsless in her latest Instagram post. On Wednesday, the actress shared a new carousel commemorating her recent trip …

Rokid Glasses with the app and case. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Rokid Glasses are a competitor to Meta Ray-Bans but offer several more advanced features. The company launched a pre-order marketing campaign via Kickstarted and raised over $1 million in pre-orders in the first 3 days. The AI glasses are likely …

Kevin Ratermann/Static A few months after being previewed during CES 2025, Rokid is ready to release its futuristic AR smart glasses. While Meta and other companies are still focusing on AI assistants and cameras for their solutions, Rokid goes a step further by actually adding a display on the glasses. Ahead of …

Ever since the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses arrived on the market, the elephant in the room has always been: what if someone uses them for clandestine recording? And it struck one New York woman who was attending a Brazilian wax appointment at the Europan Wax Center and noticed midway through proceedings that the beautician was wearing a pair of the …

GM of Android XR, Shahram Izadi, on stage at Google I/O 2025. Google I/O (screenshot by Jason Hiner) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Samsung’s AI glasses running Android XR would compete with the Meta Ray-Bans. The smart glasses will reportedly be announced at an Unpacked event on September 29. The product will be powered …

Gen Z pushes back against smart glasses and cameras over privacy fears  TechSpot I went to a spa for a Brazilian wax — but I was shocked by what the worker was wearing  New York Post Smart glasses record people in public. The most online generation is pushing back.  The Washington Post Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is …

A woman was left in shock after she went in for a Brazilian wax – only to find that her service provider was wearing Meta‘s Ray-Ban AI glasses. Aniessa Navarro, a New York City-based influencer with over 100,000 followers, took to TikTok recently to share her story, explaining that she was completely caught off guard after going in for a treatment. …

Rokid executive Liang Guan wearing Rokid Glasses. Liang Guan/Rokid (via LinkedIn) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Rokid Glasses are a competitor to Meta Ray-Bans but offer several more advanced features. The company launched a pre-order marketing campaign via Kickstarted and raised over $1 million in pre-orders in the first 3 days. The AI glasses …