Meta is reportedly engaged on good glasses that may be recording on a regular basis

Meta is perhaps the subsequent firm to make an always-on AI wearable. The firm is engaged on prototype “super sensing” always-aware good glasses that would repeatedly document audio and snap photographs “every few seconds,” according to the Financial Times. The wearer might then ask Meta AI concerning the captured audio and pictures.

However, the photographs and audio won’t be immediately obtainable to the consumer. Here’s how the FT describes a technique the glasses might use the information:

In one proposed system, uncooked footage and audio wouldn’t be saved by Meta or made obtainable to the consumer, a number of individuals stated. Instead, the metadata from that audio and pictures can be extracted and uploaded to the server for Meta’s AI to question, which proponents argue would have fewer privateness implications.

But at present, Meta is planning for the LED recording indicator to stay off in “super sensing” mode, the FT stories. In a July 2025 whitepaper, the corporate said that it could reserve the LED indicator for “active capture” eventualities the place the consumer is saving photographs or movies, and depart it off throughout “AI Feature” use — corresponding to scanning a menu — to keep away from customers changing into too used to the indicator. (If the indicator was on through the “super sensing” mode, it may also be more durable to know when the glasses are literally recording video.)

Meta can also be discussing if it could use the captured knowledge for coaching its AI fashions. It might also deliver the “super sensing” options to glasses it has already launched, the FT says.

“While we don’t comment on internal prototypes, we’re committed to getting our glasses right because they need to be loved by both people wearing them and those around them,” Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold says in an announcement to The Verge. Arnold additionally notes that “Our approach has been to develop new technologies that will help people throughout their day, with privacy built in from the ground up.”

Meta hasn’t been shy about some sort of always-aware glasses being a chance. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, within the firm’s Q1 2026 earnings name, stated that he was “really excited to see the glasses evolve from being able to answer questions to being able to be a personal agent that’s with you all day long, helping you remember things and achieve your goals.” In a March blog post about new Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the corporate wrote that “with ongoing software updates, Meta AI on glasses will transition from something you have to prompt with a question each time, to a more continuous, in-the-moment assistant that can help throughout the day.”