Lawaken’s camera-free X-AI memory glasses go on presale in China from CNY 699, with 12-hour recording and MCP links to Claude, Codex, Doubao and Feishu. But the price, battery, frame and mic claims no longer match the July WAIC launch.
Meta’s improved Meta Account is replacing Accounts Center for Facebook, Instagram, Meta AI, AI glasses and Quest, with central passwords, passkeys and shared ad preferences. Meta’s own pages disagree on where passkeys work, and say nothing about how glasses sign-in changes.
Amazon’s Bee Frontier wearable is on sale for $74.99 and Bee Eclipse is coming from $99.99. Both listen and summarize conversations, but Alexa+ and Amazon.com shopping links need Bee Pro at $11.99 a month, putting year one at $206.88, still below camera-free AI glasses.
The Consumentenbond, Offlimits and The Firewall will face Meta in summary proceedings in Amsterdam on November 26. Offlimits and The Firewall want sales stopped; the Consumentenbond wants a redesign first and a ban only as a fallback, with a medical exemption.
The Nigerian Army says Plateau journalist Lawrence Zongo entered a restricted facility in Jos without clearance while wearing Meta glasses. The explanation surfaced after his release, and no formal charge has been reported.
XGIMI’s camera-free MemoMind One display glasses went on presale in China on October 15 at CNY 2,699 after a halted Kickstarter and a pending U.S. design-patent suit. The headline feature is an always-on audio memory that detects meetings by itself.
Tether’s 254M-parameter QVAC TranscribePsy runs speech recognition on phones and is pitched at smart glasses, but the release is batch-only, names no glasses partner, and its benchmarks are self-reported.
HTC tells WIRED it is “not a social media company” and details the VIVE Eagle’s encrypted, login-free design. Its own price page shows what VIVE AI costs once the free two years end.
The EDPB’s first statement on smart glasses treats device makers and AI providers as controllers, calls today’s indicators insufficient, and lists four bystander signals, from LEDs that block covered recording to opt-in phone alerts.
Some Ray-Ban Meta owners found conversations saved to their Meta AI history without saying “Hey Meta.” Meta says the issue is resolved, but has not said what caused it or what happens to the captured audio.