Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Nosedpads.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show we're going to talk about smart glasses.

Specifically, why smart glasses are such a pervasive idea in the tech industry right now.

We've talked a lot about them. We've been covering smart glasses since the days of Google Glass,

and there are so many

problems and challenges with smart glasses. There was the whole glass hole problem. There are huge

technological problems with actually making this stuff real. There are supply chain issues.

There are display things no one has invented yet. Smart glasses are going to be very hard to do correctly. And

even if they're done correctly, it's still very much in the air whether people want them

and what they want them for. And yet, all of that aside, a huge portion of the tech industry,

including most of the biggest hardware manufacturers, are absolutely convinced that smart glasses are the future. So the Verges V-Song is going to come on. She has used all the smart glasses. She has reviewed all the smart glasses. And she and I are going to try to figure out why the tech industry can't quit smart glasses. It's going to be great. But first, here's everything else happening on the Verge today. This is 90 seconds on The Verge for Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

Meta is turning off, at least for now, a program that it created to log everything employees do on their computers.

And I mean everything, including mouse clicks and keystrokes, all to use as AI training data.

Turns out, a lot of the data being collected was very private

and made accessible across the entire company. Seems bad. More broadly, there's been a lot of

reporting recently about a huge morale problem at meta, where everything and everyone is being

pivoted toward AI, whether they like it or not. Meanwhile, obviously, privacy and regulatory issues

just abound at Meta. In a lot of ways, the meta brand right now is just not great in general,

which makes this next thing, frankly, very funny. Meta launched a new pair of smart glasses today,

just called the Meta Glasses. They're cheaper than the Rayban models, which might be the big reason

for dropping the partnership with such an expensive brand, and they come in several new fits,

including one made with Kylie Jenner. Meta also told the Verge's Victoria's song that the

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