Samsung’s Smart Glasses Would possibly Not Should Do A lot, Due to Meta

Smart glasses may be a comparatively new class (not less than commercially talking), however they’re already beginning to look slightly repetitive. By “repetitive,” I imply lots of them really feel eerily acquainted to the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, and Samsung’s unreleased “Galaxy Glasses” could also be included in that development.

While Samsung hasn’t given us a lot in the way in which of official information on its upcoming sensible glasses, leaks counsel just a few similarities with the Ray-Ban AI glasses, together with an identical battery measurement. According to a report from SamMobile, one variant of Samsung’s sensible glasses could have a 245mAh battery, nearly the very same measurement because the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI glasses, which include a 248mAh battery. That ought to (theoretically) give the upcoming sensible glasses about the identical battery life as Meta’s, the most recent mannequin of which may get round eight hours of common use on a single cost.

The similarities don’t cease there. Samsung just lately revealed to CNBC at MWC 2026 that its sensible glasses can even have a digital camera at “eye level” and can hook up with your telephone. Neither of these issues is shocking in any approach, to be clear, however they’re essential in that they align nearly one-to-one with Meta’s choices. If these redundancies aren’t sufficient, the report additionally claims Samsung’s sensible glasses will probably embrace laptop imaginative and prescient indirectly. Or as CNBC put it, the gadget can “process information received by the camera” via a digital camera that’s reportedly 12 megapixels, the identical because the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses.

And what about controlling the sensible glasses? Well, that feels like extra of the identical, too—leaks suggest you’ll use a touch-sensitive bar on the glasses’ arm to swipe round and faucet. I believe you get the purpose. No phrase on any Neural Band-like wearable, although. The reality of the matter is that Meta set the template for sensible glasses, and firms appear to be following that nearly to a T, although that doesn’t imply Samsung gained’t enhance on the class, even when it’s strikingly comparable.

Stronger privateness?

If there’s one purpose to purchase a pair of sensible glasses not made by Meta, it’s privateness. A recent investigation revealed that Meta has been sending movies taken with its AI glasses to human subcontractors primarily based in Kenya for the aim of coaching its AI. Those movies, because it seems, included all types of stuff that most individuals would relatively hold personal, together with movies of them utilizing the toilet, having intercourse, or financial institution/bank card data. Some of these movies had been almost definitely recorded by chance.

Not an amazing look, and in the event you’re not a lot into having your personal moments reviewed by strangers, it could be simple sufficient to decide on {hardware} from an organization that simply doesn’t use your knowledge for coaching functions. In this case, that would imply Samsung, although we’ll have to attend and see if its so-called Galaxy Glasses make a larger effort to safeguard privateness.

On high of privateness, there’s additionally the truth that Samsung is a large purveyor of telephones, that means its sensible glasses shall be tightly knit with Galaxy units. That may make its specs interesting to anybody within the Samsung cell ecosystem and is a transparent benefit over Meta’s {hardware}, which nonetheless requires every thing to be routed via the Meta AI app—an app that it just lately stuffed a bunch of AI slop into.

Samsung’s Galaxy units additionally include Knox safety. While no safety platform is hacker-proof, Samsung’s dedication to safety and privateness versus Meta’s looseness with it (see: Meta is removing end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs on May 8) not less than offers it a slight edge for customers involved about their POV footage being mishandled.

Ultimately, the sensible glasses being the identical won’t matter, as a result of Meta has been laborious at work undercutting what’s in any other case first rate {hardware}—first rate in the event you’re okay with the inherent privateness considerations that come together with it. What I imply to say is that, if Meta retains its tempo, any pair of AI glasses not made by the corporate (redundant or not) could discover an viewers.