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While checking out of a recent medical appointment, I was suddenly horrified to realize the front desk receptionist I was speaking with had on a pair of Meta x Ray Ban smart glasses.\u201cThose aren\u2019t filming, right\u201d I asked, mentally pre-filing my HIPAA violation suit. She seemed surprised to even receive such a question, taking a moment to clock that I was referring to the recording device on her face that has been embroiled in controversies. No, she assured me, once it clicked, the camera wasn\u2019t on. She was only using them to listen to music. Resisting the urge to suggest that the AirPods lying on her desk might better serve that purpose, I opted to leave the convo there, further surrendering myself to the idea that I am part of a dying breed who actually cares about the existential privacy invasions presented by a population paying to be walking panopticons.<\/p>\n
Despite complaints from women recorded without their knowledge and consent by creeps sporting them\u2014who are then extorted for money when they ask for the published video to be taken down\u2014wearing smart glasses in public is not (yet) being treated like the breach of social contract it inherently is, in or out of doctors offices. In fact, the number of units sold just keeps going up. A Q4 earnings report from Ray-Ban\u2019s parent company, EssilorLuxottica, showed that sales for the wearables had tripled in 2025 over the previous year. It will come as no surprise to anyone that one of the biggest names in consumer tech is planning to carve out a big slice of that market for themselves.Recent reporting by Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman confirms what we all knew was coming\u2014Apple\u2019s got their own smart glasses in the works and hopes to disrupt that wearable market similarly to how they did with smartwatches, which now generate an estimated $17 billion annually for the company.Rumors have been swirling about the tech giant\u2019s inevitable foray into the smart glasses space for years, the most recent of those suggesting their first-gen specs, internally code-named \u201cN50,\u201d would be revealed to customers by the end of 2026 and sold early the next year. But developmental delays, a perennial hindrance for Apple, have officially pushed their planned release date back to later in 2027, presumably just in time for the holiday gift season.Sources told Gurman that current CEO Tim Apple (a.k.a. Tim Cook) is making development of these wearables his \u201ctop priority\u201d before passing the company reins over to his successor John Ternus on September 1st. Fittingly, Ternus has been leading Apple\u2019s Vision Products Group (VPG) for the past two years while they\u2019ve been developing the product. However, this is the same group who\u2019ve also been working on the forthcoming AirPod Pros with built-in infrared cameras, the announcement of which generated dread from segments of the internet wondering why such an upgrade was necessary, even if they won\u2019t enable full-on scumbag behavior.The proposed glasses, on the other hand, explicitly seek to compete with Meta\u2019s wearables and everything they\u2019re used for. Priced in the $200 to $500 range, Apple\u2019s glasses will come in a number of popular styles, have built-in cameras, speakers, and mics for taking videos, pics, and calls or playing music, podcasts, and Siri announcements. The main aesthetic difference between these and Meta\u2019s current glasses roster is that Apple\u2019s cameras will be ovular rather than circles. Gurman also believes that Apple\u2019s glasses won\u2019t have in-screen AR display capabilities like the latest Ray-Bans for at least a few years.It remains to be seen if these products are on track to become their next ubiquitous hit \u00e0 la AirPods or will flop like the prohibitively expensive Vision Pro. But if those price points and society\u2019s increasing indifference to the surveillance state are any indicators, it might be prudent to start polishing your Computer Vision Dazzle makeup skills just in case. While checking out of a recent medical appointment, I was suddenly horrified to realize the front desk receptionist I was speaking with had on a pair of Meta x Ray Ban smart glasses.\u201cThose aren\u2019t filming, right\u201d I asked, mentally pre-filing my HIPAA violation suit. 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