Apple targets WWDC 2027 for smart glasses but is still deciding on the camera question

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Apple is aiming for a WWDC 2027 smart glasses unveil and is debating whether to include a camera amid the privacy backlash Meta created

Apple is currently aiming to unveil its first smart glasses at next June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, with a consumer release by the end of 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. But the company’s engineering and marketing teams are still wrestling with a question that will define the product: whether its glasses should include a camera at all. The teams developing the device, code-named N50, within Apple’s Vision hardware group see privacy as the top priority, Gurman reported on Saturday.

That caution is a direct response to the backlash Meta created. Meta has sold more than seven million pairs of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, but the product’s camera has become a lightning rod for privacy complaints, with women being secretly filmed in public and Kenyan...

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