Ray-Ban Meta firmware v129 adds Mono Audio and Audio Balance accessibility controls for Meta AI and notification sounds, while v128’s walking navigation, Spatial Audio and LED anti-tampering are now broadly available.
The open-source iPhone app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses now accepts ChatGPT Plus/Pro and SuperGrok sign-ins through CLI login surfaces it calls undocumented, and on October 4 it moved eight API keys and tokens out of a plain-text settings file.
Norway’s government will propose a temporary ban on AI glasses in selected public, child-focused and privacy-sensitive places, with exemptions and an expert group to draft permanent rules. Which devices count is still undecided.
Information Age (ACS) says Meta is still expanding VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, and Muse Charm while Australia’s privacy commissioner and prime minister weigh tougher rules on surveillance wearables.
Korean outlets report Meta will bring Naver Map real-time walking directions to Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses by year-end, with open-ear audio and nearby-place voice queries.
UploadVR’s Laura Mingail highlights Tender Claws’ Body Proxy — a location-based Ray-Ban Meta experience that puts players under AI judgment with ~100 physical tasks. SXSW 2026 Jury Award winner; more event tours planned.
Bloomberg Power On, via Mixed News and AppleInsider: Apple wants display-free smart glasses by end of 2027; N224 headset still looks like late 2028 or early 2029.
RetailBoss reads Connect’s eyewear news as an assortment story: 100+ AI glasses options by year-end, with Meta Glasses live today in Singapore, South Korea, Mexico, and the UAE.
One Meta AI glasses toggle — Store visual data from AI experiences — decides whether AI-experience images and videos are stored, used for training, and open to human review.
Omdia says Meta shipped 3.4 million of 4.2 million AI glasses worldwide in 1H26 — an 81.3% share — while camera-free Even Realities climbed to second place with 102,000 pairs.