Meta is exploring a new category of wearable devices beyond its Ray-Ban smart glasses, aiming to expand its AI hardware ambitions.

Testing for an AI pendant could begin in the coming year, potentially building on the Limitless AI Pendant Meta acquired in 2023.

The proposed AI-powered pendant would be worn around the neck and continuously listen to conversations and ambient audio to generate transcripts, summaries, and reminders.

Past AI wearables faced adoption hurdles due to privacy concerns, marketing missteps, and questions about usefulness, though major players continue pursuing AI-device development.

The device signals a shift toward a constant-observer AI that remembers conversations, meetings, ideas, and tasks without prompting, raising privacy and consent questions.

This move comes as competitors race to define the next major consumer computing platform beyond smartphones, with AI wearables drawing growing investor and executive attention.

Reality Labs reportedly lost about $19 billion in 2025, heightening urgency for successful wearable hardware as CEO Mark Zuckerberg positions glasses and wearables as central to the division’s future.

Meta is investing heavily in AI infrastructure, custom chips, and research to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Apple, while tackling battery life, privacy, and user adoption challenges.

Meta’s smart-glasses push faces competition from Samsung, Google, and possibly Apple, along with privacy and regulatory scrutiny over facial recognition and constant cameras.

The so-called supersensing glasses are described as capable of always-on vision capture, enabling ambient assistant functionality that remembers everyday details like keys, raising privacy and battery-life concerns.

The article underscores potential privacy concerns around AI-enabled wearables, referencing prior coverage of privacy issues with Ray-Ban glasses and AI features.

Specific launch plans and technical specs for the proposed wearable are not disclosed, indicating early development stages.