Meta's next AI glasses reportedly have no camera, six microphones and a Meta AI button
Meta is preparing a pair of AI glasses with no camera at all, and plans to release them this autumn. The Information reported on September 15 that the model is internally codenamed Luna, citing people familiar with the matter.
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), one of Meta's current camera glasses. Image: Meta
The report says Luna carries six built-in microphones for talking to Meta AI and to Muse, Meta's consumer AI agent, plus a button on the side that calls up the assistant. Meta has confirmed none of it, and the company's only fixed date is the Connect keynote on September 23.
What the report says Luna is
Luna is described as an audio and voice device. Alongside the microphones and the quick-action button, it is reported to carry speakers like the ones in Meta's current glasses, which aim sound at the wearer's ears without covering them.
The frame is the other change. The report describes temple arms slimmer than the ones on Meta's existing models, so the glasses look more like ordinary eyewear, which is roughly what dropping a camera module buys you.
A pair without a lens would lean hard on the assistant. Muse is coming to Meta's AI glasses, and voice is the only input a camera-free pair has left.
The camera is the part people object to
Every pair of AI glasses Meta sells today has a camera in the corner, from the prescription Ray-Ban Meta styles starting at $499 that Meta opened for pre-order in March to Oakley Meta and Meta Ray-Ban Display. The report puts Luna squarely in that context, as an answer to privacy concerns about the cameras on the glasses Meta already sells.
Removing the lens is not a new pitch either. A camera-free glasses startup reached a $1 billion valuation in July, on the argument that plenty of people want the assistant and the speakers without the thing that makes strangers uncomfortable.
Dropping the lens changes what Meta AI can do on your face. The assistant's showpiece on the current glasses is being asked about what the camera can see, and a pair with six microphones and nothing to look through keeps only the half that listens.
What the report does not have
There is no price, no retail name, no list of countries and no date inside the autumn window. Meta has not commented on Luna, and a codename is not a product.
The sourcing is worth weighing on its own. Every detail here comes from one outlet's reporting and people it has not named, and the two specifics a buyer would want, the price and the name it is sold under, are the ones missing.
Connect runs September 23 and 24 from Meta's Menlo Park campus, with the keynote at 4:00 p.m. PT on the first day. That is the point at which Luna either becomes a product with a price, or stays a codename in somebody else's reporting.
