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HTC VIVE Eagle review: Low-fall AI smart glasses

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Note: This review was originally published on July 1, 2026. Smart glasses are no longer the gadgets of the sci-fi movies we saw growing up, although I think we’re a bit further away from all the cameras, speakers and AI assistants sitting on our faces happily walking around. What has changed in recent years, especially …

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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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