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Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses amid privacy debate
Meta aims to launch facial recognition on Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses this year during a politically distracted period, after tripling sales in 2025, internal memo shows.
- Meta, the biggest maker of smart glasses, is planning to introduce facial recognition capabilities into its glasses for assistive purposes.
- An internal Meta memo cited the current "dynamic political environment" as a favorable landscape to launch the controversial facial recognition feature, expecting civil society groups to be focused on other concerns.
- The planned facial recognition mode, possibly called Name Tag, may be limited to recognizing people connected to the user on Facebook and was initially planned for debut at a conference for the blind.
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Feature to Smart Glasses
Meta Platforms plans to add a facial recognition feature called “Name Tag” to its smart glasses as early as this year, The New York Times reported . The article confirms a report in T he Information from last May that said Meta had revived plans to include the feature in its smart glasses. As The Information’s report said, the facial recognition feature would identify people by name. The
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Meta apparently thinks we’re too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans
Mark Zuckerberg in Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses. Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images Meta is planning to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, The New York Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. Why now? Because people are distracted by bigger things going on in the world, the story said, citing an internal memo. The company told Business Insider it’s still thinking through options. I have some ideas about why we’re all distracte…
Meta is considering bringing facial recognition to Ray-Bans. It thinks we're too distracted to notice.
Mark Zuckerberg in Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses.Craig T Fruchtman/Getty ImagesMeta is planning to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, The New York Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.Why now? Because people are distracted by bigger things going on in the world, the story said, citing an internal memo.The company told Business Insider it's still thinking through options. I have some ideas about why we're all distracted.Sin…
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