At its annual Connect conference, Meta unveiled a camera-free version of its smart glasses — a quiet concession to years of criticism that wearable cameras have made surveillance invisible and intimate spaces unsafe. The $349 audio-only device, arriving October 13, is not a retreat from ambition but a reframing of it: CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions nearly two billion glasses-wearers eventually adopting AI-powered eyewear, with Meta's new personal assistant Muse at the center of daily life. The announcement arrives as the company navigates an $18 billion legal settlement over children's privacy