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Meta's updated Ray-Ban smart glasses with the new Neural Band have been put on hold in international markets where they were set to launch this year due to what the company has described as unprecedented demand and limited supply.

These glasses have really been a breakout success for Meta, the previous versions and this new version, which launched in the U.S.

in September.

And they've been a kind of hot item at CES this week.

Maria, as someone who lived through the Google Glass hype cycle and eventual trough of disillusionment, I'm a little surprised that these have taken off the way that they have.

Are you?

I do think there is a lesson in there, though, about, you know, wearables.

Like, they cannot make people look like futuristic weirdos.

Yeah.

I think, you know, a big part of this is that these are Ray-Bans.

They look very close to a normal eyeglass and they're fashionable.

But yeah, you know, again, the technology has really improved wearability.

But the technology also, like much of the rest of the things that we've been talking about during this episode, raises some kind of policy legal questions, right?

I mean, they have the potential to be recording all of the time.

There are a number of other devices that people are wearing that are recording all the time.

And that is not necessarily something that is legally kosher in some jurisdictions.

I know in California we have two-party consent.

That was Maria Curie at Axios.

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