Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/30/meta-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-pendant/

by rishikeshs • 2 months ago

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king_zee• 2 months ago

Just like the Meta glasses sent your video feeds to Kenya [1] this one will send the soul of your firstborn there

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-ou...

plastic-enjoyer4• 2 months ago

It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.

pertymcpert• 2 months ago

Even in public?

plastic-enjoyer4• 2 months ago

Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume that they may behave maliciously and take appropriate action against such ppeople. Those people will only learn if we collectively decide that punching and breaking their stupid glasses is the right way to handle this.

tracerbulletx• 2 months ago

Why? Its not for any other camera and its insane you think it is.

plastic-enjoyer4• 2 months ago

It's insane to record people without their consent with devices that are designed for concealed recording. It's not insane to fight back.

sunaookami2• 2 months ago

Ah yes, the world needs more violence! Just punch anyone you disagree with!

plastic-enjoyer4• 2 months ago

It is not a disagreement, but rather an act of self-defence in response to an act of violence.

janice1999• 2 months ago

Related: "You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop."

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-ba...

gattac_janitor3• 2 months ago

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

0xy2• 2 months ago

Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now?

Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.

bmitc2• 2 months ago

Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?

addaon• 2 months ago

8x scaling over a time period where the available size and performance of single-image systems increased by more than 8x seems… if not trivial, at least not an “insane achievement.”

gattac_janitor3• 2 months ago

Scaling a product like that is an incredible engineering achievement, but I am speaking specifically about product development. What other products has Facebook innovated internally, worked through the product-market fit, and scaled itself? Again, my point is that they have a ton of resources and a huge existing user base, but the only successes they seem to have are purchasing companies that are ramping. They deploy engineers and connect to the existing user base, but they aren't innovative in product design.

smikhanov• 2 months ago

“Scaling” as in “making sure the infrastructure can handle much higher load”, or as in “making sure the product remains genuinely useful to people, so that the user numbers go up and not down”? For both, it didn’t happen by itself, but it’s far from rocket science. A sane team of 15-20 people can do it.

ulfw• 2 months ago

Scaling a product from 0 to 450 MM is a humongous achievement.

Going from 450 to 3300 seems rather small in terms of technical achievement. If you can serve 450 you can serve 3300 MM frankly.

tristanj2• 2 months ago

Threads? They have 400m monthly active users and 100m+ daily active users. Though, its userbase likely does not intersect with your interests.

Meta Ray-Ban glasses are also a massive success.

gattac_janitor3• 2 months ago

Threads is an internally developed Twitter clone when Twitter launched in 2006 and Threads launched in 2023? I'm not saying they didn't build it, but it was not an original product design; they waited until there was already a market, launched and deployed it to Facebook users. I will give you the Ray-Ban glasses, but even that was a product that is a better version of Google Glass, so still not really a unique product.

spprashant• 2 months ago

I really doubt that 400M number. They try to get me to login to Threads see comments on Instagram posts. Technically I am monthly "active" user, but not really.

I see more Bluesky links in the wild than Threads and they claim only 27M users.

dominotw2• 2 months ago

i am surprise ai glasses are not more popular. i would love to wear those to appliance store and get info about appliance quickly.

is there any alternative ray ban meta . i hate buying from zuck.

terribleperson• 2 months ago

Facebook marketplace killed craigslist, I guess?

Sure, it's part of Facebook but it's not the same as the core product.

satvikpendem3• 2 months ago

Meta glasses are very successful, so much that Google, Samsung and reportedly Apple are looking to get in on the game.

qsxfthnkp23223• 2 months ago

Why anyone would pay money for meta to collect their entire life of data is beyond me.

Instagram and Facebook and WhatsApp are already free.

DaveZale2• 2 months ago

no, verrrrry expensive

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-ext...

these "free" products are hugely, mind-bogglingly, yet invisibly expensive

qsxfthnkp23223• 2 months ago

Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect

Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them.

And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.

ianmabie• 2 months ago

They acquired Limitless AI in 2025 which had pivoted from “record and rewind anything on your Mac” to a hardware pendant “granola for everything” product. It was not in market for very long prior to the acquisition.

Hardware was very nice & sorry to see they sold. Mine sits in my desk now :/

htrp• 2 months ago

Was there any ongoing support there? Or do you basically have a fancy paperweight?

LoganDark2• 2 months ago

Limitless used to be Rewind that maintained one of the most useful pieces of software on my Mac, and I use a cracked version now because I refuse to give it up. There is nothing else like it yet. I seem to recall some other thing that aims to be similar, but that might be cross-platform or otherwise Linux-ish which discounted it as a practical alternative. (I don't remember its name unfortunately)

satvikpendem3• 2 months ago

What is so good about limitless over the others?

uhfraid• 2 months ago

The Swarovski™ Meta AI Amulet… brilliant!

The world desperately needs more products conceived under sweaty moonlight at burning man!

Eddy_Viscosity2• 2 months ago

Is it just me or does anyone else feel a cold sinister gloom whenever they hear any phrase starting with 'Meta develops...'

Oh an AI pendant, what kind of dystopian thing are they going to use this for.

Or is it just me.

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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