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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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The company prepares a facial recognition feature for its Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses that could be launched this year. An internal document reveals that the company considers the current political climate in the US as the ideal time to make it Read

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Mashable broke the news in United States on Thursday, May 8, 2025.
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