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Meta’s new ‘Navigator’ system UI has finally been released on all Quest headsets

Meta's new 'Navigator' system UI has finally been released on all Quest headsets

The new Horizon OS ‘Navigator’ system UI has finally been released on all Quest headsets, more than a year after Meta began testing it publicly. Since the release of the Oculus Go in 2018, Meta’s standalone VR platform has seen several visual changes, but the general interface architecture has remained essentially the same. Below you …

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Meta’s smart glasses companion app was downloaded more than 50 million times before anyone revealed that it already had three AI models capable of facial recognition, biometric fingerprinting and ‘authorized person’ notification.

Meta's smart glasses companion app was downloaded more than 50 million times before anyone disclosed that it already contained three AI models capable of detecting a face, generating a biometric fingerprint, and firing a notification that read 'Person Recognized'

On 4 June 2026, a security analyst named Bucciodi published a technical analysis of Stella, Meta’s companion app for Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. Examining Android build version 273.0.0.21, the researcher found what they described as a complete, passive face recognition pipeline: three on-device AI models, a biometric database scheme, a dimensioned vector similarity index …

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