{"id":260493,"date":"2026-05-31T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:10:08","slug":"apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta\u2019s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027-2000765491\">Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta\u2019s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late 2027<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027-2000765491\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027-2000765491<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 15:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While checking out of a recent medical appointment, I was suddenly horrified to realize the front desk receptionist I was speaking with had on a pair of Meta x Ray Ban smart glasses.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThose aren\u2019t filming, right\u201d I asked, mentally pre-filing my HIPAA violation suit. She seemed surprised to even receive such a question, taking a moment to clock that I was referring to the recording device on her face that has been embroiled in controversies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. No, she assured me, once it clicked, the camera wasn\u2019t on. She was only using them to listen to music. Resisting the urge to suggest that the AirPods lying on her desk might better serve that purpose, I opted to leave the convo there, further surrendering myself to the idea that I am part of a dying breed who actually cares about the existential <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">privacy invasions<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presented by a population paying to be walking panopticons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite complaints from women recorded without their knowledge and consent by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">creeps sporting them<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014who are then <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">extorted for money<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when they ask for the published video to be taken down\u2014wearing smart glasses in public is not (yet) being treated like the breach of social contract it inherently is, in or out of doctors offices. In fact, the number of units sold just keeps going up. A <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Q4 earnings repor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t from Ray-Ban\u2019s parent company, EssilorLuxottica, showed that sales for the wearables had tripled in 2025 over the previous year. It will come as no surprise to anyone that one of the biggest names in consumer tech is planning to carve out a big slice of that market for themselves.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reporting by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloomberg<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s Mark Gurman confirms what we all knew was coming\u2014Apple\u2019s got their own smart glasses in the works and hopes to disrupt that wearable market similarly to how they did with smartwatches, which now generate an estimated $17 billion annually for the company.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rumors have been swirling about the tech giant\u2019s inevitable foray into the smart glasses space for years, the most&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-is-officially-coming-for-metas-privacy-invading-lunch-with-its-own-smart-glasses-in-late-2027-2000765491\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta\u2019s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/apple-glasses-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-260493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260497,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260493\/revisions\/260497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}