The Verge reviewed the Ray-Ban Meta Audio, a camera-less, audio-only version of Meta's smart glasses that starts at $349 in Clubmaster and Burbank styles. The reviewer found that dropping the camera makes the glasses look and feel more ordinary and removes the sense of being intrusive, but it also limits what multimodal AI can do: the glasses currently run the weaker Muse Spark model, while Meta's more capable Muse AI is said to arrive later this year. As open-ear headphones the sound is decent with two full workdays of battery, though there is leakage and weak performance in noisy places, and at $349 without prescription lenses or the hearing-assistance feature the reviewer calls them overpriced.

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