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The first thing that happened when I put on the glasses was that “Starboy,” the 2016 dance track by The Weeknd and Daft Punk, started blasting. Standing in a blue, skateshop-themed room in New York City—one of a few Meta pop-up stores across the country—I stared helplessly at the employee beside me whose instructions I could no longer hear.

The glasses I tried on are the tech giant’s latest attempt at “smart” eyewear, a subcategory of the internet-enabled wearable devices that entered the mainstream more than a decade ago. Powered by AI, they are operated with a second accessory called the Neu

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