Meta's first camera-free Ray-Ban smart glasses start at $349 and ship Oct. 13. Ray-Ban Meta Audio keeps open-ear music, calls and Meta AI voice features while dropping photo, video and computer-vision functions. Meta claims up to 12 hours of battery life, plus 48 hours from the charging case, in a 43-gram frame offered in Clubmaster and Burbank styles. Removing the camera addresses one obvious source of bystander concern, although Meta did not say privacy backlash drove the design.