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Smart-eyewear maker whose glasses provide display-based functions without a camera or speaker.
Research commissioned by smart glasses brand Even Realities found 83% of respondents in the UK back workplace restrictions on camera glasses. The case for rewriting recording and confidentiality policies rests mainly on employment lawyers' advice.
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Norway will ask parliament to temporarily ban AI glasses in at least 12 kinds of place, including schools, beaches and gyms. Private use stays legal, so what a pair of glasses may record would depend on where the wearer stands and who is nearby.
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Omdia's first-half count shows AI glasses growth still running almost entirely on pairs with cameras. The restrictions arriving on wearers come from Australian schools, city councils and draft rules in Beijing.
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Counterpoint Research's first-half numbers show the category up 263% and one vendor holding almost all of it. Anyone building for smart glasses is building for Meta's Ray-Bans in North America and Western Europe.
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Vonder costs $299, has no cameras and ships in November. Viture's cofounder says the built-in assistant messaged him unprompted about how he was treating his 10-year-old at tennis tournaments.
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The Dutch company stamps out waveguides for smart glasses and now wants to supply data center optics, a market where it has not installed a machine. Its backers include 3M Ventures and the European Investment Bank.
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Meta's $799 glasses have what PCMag calls the best display of its class, a full-color 600-by-600 window 20 degrees wide, and the review's buying advice still goes to Even Realities' $599 G2 or to waiting for Android XR.
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9to5Google's Ben Schoon says misuse of the Ray-Ban camera, and Meta's slow response to it, has put him off wearing smart glasses at all. Samsung and Google are close to shipping their own, cameras included.
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