The tech giant pushed back the launch of its first smart glasses to June 2027 amid growing unease over the product’s built-in cameras.<\/p>\n
\n A person walks past Apple’s logo at the Apple Myeongdong store in Jung District, central Seoul.
\n YONHAP\n <\/p>\n
Apple pushed back the launch of its first smart glasses to its Worldwide Developers Conference in June of next year, Bloomberg reported Sunday. <\/p>\n
The device, code-named N50, is set to go on sale late next year.<\/p>\n
Apple had planned to unveil the glasses late this year and release them in early 2027, but opted to delay as privacy concerns increased.<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s smart glasses have raised fears that users could secretly record people in restaurants, workplaces and other public spaces. Some areas of New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have banned the devices, as have some schools, gyms, hospitals and entertainment venues.<\/p>\n
Like Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban smart glasses, made with EssilorLuxottica, Apple\u2019s device will feature speakers and microphones for music, calls and Siri notifications. It will also include a camera and AI functions.<\/p>\n
Apple considered models that could not take photos or record video. It also reportedly\u00a0built a prototype without a camera.<\/p>\n
However,\u00a0Bloomberg reported\u00a0Apple is unlikely to remove the camera\u00a0feature\u00a0because doing so would limit the device\u2019s main functions.<\/p>\n
BY\u00a0JUNG SI-NAE [kim.hayoon1@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tech giant pushed back the launch of its first smart glasses to June 2027 amid growing unease…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-570130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}