Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Meta has shipped facial recognition functionality on its smart glasses, but it's unclear if it's active for ordinary users. The feature is enabled on a companion app, but the user-facing UI and server-pushing of identity data are missing.

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Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

6/5/2026, 3:02:20 PM

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