The Camera-Free Gamble: Inside Ray-Ban Meta Audio, the Smart Glasses Bet Meta Hopes You’ll Wear to the Office

Meta and EssilorLuxottica just shipped the smart-glasses industry’s most telling hedge: a $349, 43-gram pair of AI audio glasses with no camera, built for the commuter who wants the assistant and the sound without being watched. This WSJ-style deep dive weighs it against Echo Frames, Bose Frames, Huawei x Gentle Monster and Xiaomi.