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Posted by zingerlio 6 hours ago

Nearby Glasses(github.com)
168 points | 65 commentspage 2
LlamaTrauma 3 hours ago|
relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1251/
tamimio 4 hours ago||
Need an iOS.

But I think very soon the whole detection won’t be enough, because most people will have glasses, phones, CCTV, etc., I think the best is protecting yourself, so a cloak mask or similar, where for humans it’s barely visible but for machines it blocks you from being scanned or recorded.

luxuryballs 4 hours ago|
an invisibility cloak! crazy times, maybe we can make anti-smart-glasses glasses that detect smart glasses and have an invisible beam that can target and blind the cameras
tamimio 3 hours ago||
> anti-smart-glasses glasses that detect smart glasses and have an invisible beam that can target and blind the cameras

I love it! I literally thought of something similar while writing the above comment, something like an EMP that disables all nearby camera sensors for 10min or so.

ChrisMarshallNY 45 minutes ago|||
> an EMP that disables all nearby camera sensors for 10min or so

Some years ago, there was a guy that got arrested (may have been in Chicago), for riding on the train, and running a cellphone jammer, because he hated people on the phone, while on the train.

Might be considered somewhat similar. It could definitely earn you a beatdown, if someone catches you.

luxuryballs 3 hours ago|||
I’m thinking it could be active enough to actually obscure the camera recording in real time whenever you are in the frame, like an actual beam that goes into the camera lens making the normal light intake all distorted, so it wouldn’t appear to malfunction or fail, it would just be like a refracting smudge in the feed.
tamimio 1 hour ago||
I know these below existed, but it only works against IR enabled cameras aka CCTV, but definitely they won’t against smart glasses, but I love your idea, a glass distort the lights, hmmm maybe emit IR?

https://www.reflectacles.com/order/ghost

paul7986 4 hours ago||
Bought my first pair of Meta glasses in Oct 2023 and overall I really enjoying using smart glasses! They are great for quickly/easily capturing life experiences. Also, while traveling or wherever asking and getting information on things your looking at - it's cool & useful. Tho Meta makes trash as my 1st pair died after 14 months of use after a software update and then my 2nd pair only lasted 4 months after some water splashes. I called Ray Ban for tech support and the lady on the phone agreed they are trash per how many calls she gets.

I don't care to take pics of strangers tho lots of people who havent adopted them are concerned about such.

Overall no more Meta glasses for me Im waiting for Apple's. They have tons of stores to get your glasses fixed and they don't manufacture trash that breaks! Also, maybe Apple will add a privacy feature so your pics and vids anonymize faces not in your personal network.

arjie 3 hours ago||
Do you have children? I frequently want to record things my daughter does but I find that my phone is not close at hand. I am curious if the latency to record is low-enough and I don't want to distract my daughter while she's doing whatever she's doing. I just want to capture the moment for later without interrupting the moment. They advertise it as this but I am curious what it's like in actuality.
stbtrax 13 minutes ago|||
I use it all the time for this use case. It's great because your hands are free and you can remain an active participant in play/safety/feeding. I find I capture more moments that I'm more actively involved in vs passively holding the phone and framing the shot.
paul7986 1 hour ago|||
They are great just for that and many instances you want to quickly take a pic and not interupt a moment.
cole-k 3 hours ago||
Are you making a counterpoint to the author's premise that smart glasses are an "intolerable intrusion?"

I'm having trouble understanding the purpose of your comment since it seems like you're just saying the ray ban glasses are bad for a different reason.

paul7986 3 hours ago||
I love smart glasses they are very useful for people who wear sunglasses and use their phone to take pics & videos.

Of course with all new technology people fight against it. When I wore them on rollercoasters at Cedar Point in 2024 ride attendees said take those off and store them in a locker at the front entrance of the park (that kid / ride attendant hated them). Yet as Feb 2026 Six flags now allows smart glasses to be worn thru all its parks and 7 million have been sold.

Overall I am detailing why they are useful, why I think they will be widely adopted and like many technologies before it those who are against them will adopt them too(its a counter argument here). Sure some creeps will use them and with that in mind Apple has the possible ability to solve that privacy issue as they are a privacy company (all pics and vids taken thru APple glasses faces not in your network are randomize/anonymized).

paul7986 3 hours ago||
Also noting my disdain for Meta glasses due to their lack of quality and solid customer service Apple will provide.
umairnadeem123 3 hours ago||
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strathmeyer 4 hours ago||
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yunnpp 2 hours ago||
If you're wearing these glasses and recording people in public, you're asking for a sweet punch in the face. I'm sure the little pieces of glass will look very nice inside your eyeballs.

Also, Mark Zuckerberg keeps making one socially disgusting product after another. Motherfucker should go bite some dust at this point.

tantalor 5 hours ago|
I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.
emptybits 4 hours ago||
> It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Except the basis of that culture would not be honour, would it? A critical mass of people scrutinizing and reporting others' actions might lead to a compliance-based culture. It's different IMO. i.e. intrinsic motivation to behave well (honour, morality, decency) versus extrinsic motivation to behave well (fear of unpopularity, law enforcement, mob reaction, etc.)

pibaker 3 hours ago|||
It's like how people misunderstand trust. "I trust open source software because I can review the code." No you don't. If you need to review the code then you are already not trusting it. Same deal with "honor" — the entire point of honor is you don't need eyes everywhere to look for misbehavior. You trust people to do the right thing. There is no trust in a police state.
hoten 1 hour ago||||
Right. God help you in such a society if the power goes out.
zephen 3 hours ago|||
I think you're missing the point. Or, on re-reading, the parent is missing the point.

"Honor culture" or "Culture of honor" is the term for people who are thin-skinned, quick to offense, and worried more about appearances than substance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_honor_(Southern_Uni...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing

It's all about a shame-based society. When someone is made to feel ashamed, they might lash out. It's practically the opposite of guilt, which is directed inwardly.

At the margins, a shamed person might commit mass murder, while a guilty person might commit suicide.

Before you get to the margin, both guilty people and shamed people might alter their behavior in beneficial ways, but they do it for subtly different reasons.

emptybits 2 hours ago||
Thanks. I had to be reminded about that phrase "honor culture" and, yes, I've heard that definition before.

I was focused on how I think an "honourable person" behaves, which is ... IMO ... someone who behaves well regardless of whether or not someone is watching them. i.e. being guided by a personal moral compass, without cultural shame, guilt, government laws, religious conventions, or physical fear being primary motivators

But of course, if I adopt a religion's or legal system's idea of morality as my personal compass (certainly the easiest way to go, and easily installed in youth) ... then the distinction falls apart. Cheers.

zephen 2 hours ago||
> But of course, if I adopt a religion's or legal system's idea of morality as my personal compass (certainly the easiest way to go, and easily installed in youth) ... then the distinction falls apart.

That's obviously part of it, but not the entirety of it. Guiding your own behavior is different than feeling compelled to also dictate others' behavior. Honor culture is usually putatively religious, yet is diametrically opposed to "judge not lest ye be judged."

To be fully immersed in it is to feel personally slighted by any perceived transgressions against the normal order of things, and to have zero sense of proportion about which things are truly harmful to all of us, and which things are simply not how we would do things or prefer things to be done.

pityJuke 4 hours ago|||
Yes look at this article showing all of the wonderful anti-social behaviour prevented by smart glasses: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go

(hint: smart glasses encourage anti social behaviour for online clout.)

burkaman 4 hours ago|||
Mass recording discourages social behavior, not anti-social behavior.
drawfloat 4 hours ago||
Recording people going about their day is anti social behaviour.
AlecSchueler 4 hours ago|||
Would you consider East Germany a sort of social Utopia?
thomassmith65 4 hours ago|||
It will be a delight for anyone who ever wished there existed footage of every time they vomited in public or face-planted after tripping on a cobblestone.
roughly 5 hours ago|||
50 years ago anti-social behavior included homosexuality.
throwway120385 4 hours ago||
Also included drinking from the fountain or sitting in seats or eating at a restaurant with people colored differently from you. I wonder what we're going to make "antisocial" in the next 50 years and whether or not we'll be punishing people for things we'll consider benign again in 75 years. The whole "let's surveil everything to stop all antisocial behaviors" might be going too far just like the idea that everyone should open carry to reduce crime.
tclancy 4 hours ago||
Can you show your math on how an example of the opposite of what the person you are responding to you can also mean the same thing? Feel free to skip if you live in a non-Euclidian geometry, but the OP was saying such a thing would have been likely to get people killed in the past for violating a society's mores.
Etheryte 3 hours ago|||
Firstly, fear and honor are far from being the same thing. Second, we already have this in our society today via smartphones and things have not changed for the better. If anything, society is more torn than ever.
phoronixrly 4 hours ago|||
Which sci-fi utopia stories exactly are you referring to? Please remind me, because all the scifi with ubiquitous surveillace I recall are about dystopias instead.
morkalork 4 hours ago|||
Right, this is more like Black Mirror S1E3 "The Entire History of You"
tantalor 4 hours ago|||
I can't recall exactly but it may have been The Light of Other Days
r2_pilot 2 hours ago||
I believe The Light of Other Days has slow-glass that you expose to a scene, it drinks it in, and then plays it back later.
bryanrasmussen 4 hours ago|||
from my recollection in most of the stories that is the primary starting point of the narrative but as the story goes along it turns out what you have is a dystopia, which is what it looks like we would actually get.
jibal 4 hours ago|||
That's the opposite of honor-based, and those stories are warnings about going down that path.
zephen 3 hours ago||
"Honor-based" has a specific meaning, and it is not good.

If the parent is torn about whether this is good or bad, they're really not paying attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_honor_(Southern_Uni...

toomuchtodo 4 hours ago||
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/glasshole/

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glasshole

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...