Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light

“In addition to disabling the camera on devices when tampering is detected, we work across Meta to remove ads, posts, and Marketplace listings that advertise these kinds of tampering services and we will take action, up to banning accounts that do this.”

Disable our glasses LED.. straight to jail! Tamper with elections and influence votes across a country… meh.

JohnFen• 14 days ago

The odds of this being effective are very, very low. Low enough that I'll still avoid being near anyone wearing a pair of spy glasses regardless of whether or not an LED is glowing.

cute_boi• 14 days ago

I have yet to understand how are these glasses useful to any normal people other than creeps? If you want to record simply use phone.

ompogUe• 14 days ago

Really, the original vision 20+ years ago (i.e. Rainbow's End), was that the user would have an overlay of the world they wanted to live in.

Where your pub might appear to you to be swords and sorcery world, with an orc for a bartender, the bartender would be in a sci-fi world and you would be a robot.

The cameras were needed to keep track of the real world.

I agree though, and this whole pervy use case wasn't really envisioned as much then.

fragmede• 14 days ago

There are creepy uses for them, but it should be understandable that having to take out your phone and then find the camera app and then turn off the flash and then take a picture is a lot of friction when you just wanna be in the moment but also save a picture for the gram.

lakotasapa• 14 days ago

I find them invaluable capturing my toddler. Having the spontaneous ability to record hands-free is indispensable. I do not wear it in public, however again only when it calls for capturing my toddler. Of course, I do incidentally capture strangers but I minimize this by staying close to my subject and only looking at my subject. Yeah I find it creepy but being able to be hands free and capture at great quality fast ... Indispensable.

maldev• 14 days ago

I can take pictures and videos, at eye level and recreate travels. I don’t need to take out my phone and risk theft in dangerous cities like London when I’m visiting. I don’t need to mess with gloves when it’s snowing in Seoul. I can capture a cool walk in to a bar. So many good memories on these. Good for navigation and music to.

This tech is the prototype for the future. Phones are outdated input devices and will be replaced in a decade or two.

metalman• 14 days ago

pull out the led, check its resistance, put a resistor/diode of the same resistance in it's place, and the continuity circuit will be happy. works on many many circuits, and if you are lazy or after another type of work.around, just put in a trim pot , which just might make a boost controller "think" it's on top of mount everist and provide a few more psi, or well several bar, whoooosh, wheeeeee

cheat responsibly

metalcrow• 14 days ago

Is there a method to detect the "replace with a resistor" bypass?

Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light

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