Xreal has made the most stylish budget smart glasses I’ve seen — and they give my RayNeo Air 4 Pros a real run for their money
 Xreal has made the most stylish budget smart glasses I’ve seen — and they give my RayNeo Air 4 Pros a real run for their money

I spent dozens of hours relaxing in my Xreal xbx smart glasses on my honeymoon.

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After three weeks wearing the Meta Ray-Ban Scriber Optics I couldn’t be more in love — I just wish smart glasses weren’t so controversial
 After three weeks wearing the Meta Ray-Ban Scriber Optics I couldn’t be more in love — I just wish smart glasses weren’t so controversial

Smart glasses need to get their act together — the Meta Ray-Ban Scriber Optics are my favorite tech of 2026 so far but I’m scared to wear them.

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‘I refused to let 3D die!’: Someone built a custom player for all 3D movie formats — and is even futureproofing it to preserve the grandeur of 3D for whatever the future of projectors and TVs holds

An intrepid Redditor has built a 3D movie player that supports three different generations of 3D, with an eye to the future of TV and projector tech.

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Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be
 Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be

Despite rising hate for Meta’s AI glasses, my wife wouldn’t take her smart Oakley HSTNs off during our honeymoon.

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I wore the Samsung Galaxy XR headset for a whole work week, and it’s so close to greatness — but the head strap lets it down
 I wore the Samsung Galaxy XR headset for a whole work week, and it’s so close to greatness — but the head strap lets it down

One extreme week with the Samsung Galaxy XR — it’s so close to greatness, but I need a better head strap.

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‘People are choosing to be a walking Flock camera’: the smart glasses backlash hits new heights as celebrities blast ‘creep goggles’ — and activists install fake Meta Glasses ads at London bus stops
 ‘People are choosing to be a walking Flock camera’: the smart glasses backlash hits new heights as celebrities blast ‘creep goggles’ — and activists install fake Meta Glasses ads at London bus stops

It’s been a week of strong reaction against cameras in smart glasses, and tech companies are facing a lot of negativity.

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Meta’s super-sensing AI glasses are still in the works, and I don’t know if I should be excited or terrified
 Meta’s super-sensing AI glasses are still in the works, and I don’t know if I should be excited or terrified

Is never forgetting anything ever again worth the cost of an always-watching AI? Meta certainly hopes so, as its super-sensing AI glasses edge one step closer to reality according to new report.

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I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write
 I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write

Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.

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Meta just fixed a privacy vulnerability with its Ray-Ban smart glasses, but could cameraless designs be the better future?
 Meta just fixed a privacy vulnerability with its Ray-Ban smart glasses, but could cameraless designs be the better future?

I hate cameraless smart glasses, so I’m glad Meta just solved a big vulnerability with its specs.

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‘How do you mix over 1,000 audio tracks from inside a ride vehicle?’ — how Disney Imagineering produced and mixed the soundtrack for Soarin’ Across America, and why it stands out
 ‘How do you mix over 1,000 audio tracks from inside a ride vehicle?’ — how Disney Imagineering produced and mixed the soundtrack for Soarin’ Across America, and why it stands out

In an interview, Disney Imagineering explains how it rethought the audio production process for Soarin’ Across America by bringing the mixing console into the ride vehicle.

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