Overview
- Project Luna is reported to drop a built‑in camera and could be shown at Meta's Connect developer conference on Sept. 23–24 with a retail target in October.
- Reports say Luna will focus on voice AI with six microphones, built‑in speakers and a physical button to call up Meta AI and the new 'Muse' agent.
- The redesign is presented as a response to privacy problems with earlier Ray‑Ban models, where users found ways to cover or disable recording indicators and venues and courts in the UK limited use.
- Meta has sold about seven million Ray‑Ban smart glasses to date, so the company has strong commercial and reputational reasons to pursue a slimmer, camera‑free design.
- Privacy risks remain because multiple microphones could capture nearby conversations and ongoing lawsuits and local proposals, including bans in Hamburg, mean regulators and venues will watch closely.