Menlo ParkMeta’s new Ray-Ban glasses have no camera and cost $349.
Reports say wearers filmed women and girls without consent, and Wetherspoon pubs banned the glasses.
The Audio model keeps phone calls and music, with sound funnelled into the ear.
Meta will still sell dozens of new glasses models that record video.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio goes on sale in October.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 250+ reports worldwide
- BBC leans critical
- foregrounds harassment of women by previous Ray-Ban Meta glasses, lists specific bans (JD Wetherspoon, theatres, Comic-Con)
- NDTV
- mint