I don’t miss the camera on the Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses
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A positive experience with camera-less Ray-Ban Meta audio glasses suggests there’s durable demand for ambient computing that isn’t always recording. Wearables builders should treat audio-only and low-sensor configurations as real product lanes, especially where privacy and social acceptability are gating adoption.
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