{"id":961844,"date":"2026-07-27T05:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961844\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:21:20","slug":"apple-is-banking-on-privacy-to-set-its-smart-glasses-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961844\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-07-26\/apple-glasses-may-debut-at-wwdc-2027-privacy-camera-features-versus-meta-ms1v7lta?srnd=undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Gurman<\/a>, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they\u2019ll launch by the end of 2027. Part of the hold-up may be around the company\u2019s efforts to get its privacy features and messaging in order. Smart glasses in general, and Meta\u2019s in particular, have ignited controversy over their ability to stealthily capture photos and videos. As Gurman points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote _1lkuyz80 _19wv7tc9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">The company has spent more than a decade making privacy one of its defining product messages. Simply entering the same category as Meta risks undermining that reputation, regardless of how Apple\u2019s approach differs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Apple is likely to rely on on-device processing and skip out on more controversial features like facial recognition or an always-on-recording similar to Meta\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/963138\/meta-smart-glasses-recording-super-sensing-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">super sensing<\/a>.\u201d Gurman also believes Apple will avoid using customer recordings to train AI models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Other hardware and software privacy features are also reportedly in the works. It\u2019s also possible that Apple could eventually release a version of its smart glasses without a camera, or with a camera that is exclusively for sensing and won\u2019t be able to capture video or photos at all, similar to what is rumored for Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/2\/25\/24082760\/apple-smart-glasses-airpods-cameras-smart-ring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI-enabled AirPods<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[239,122712,705,50,27016,242,158,67,132,68,3075],"class_list":["post-961844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-rumors","tag-gadgets","tag-news","tag-privacy","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wearable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116990265833111151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}