Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Still Creepy Despite Anti-creep Update
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Meta might be trying to make its smart glasses less creepy, but if recent reports are any indication, it’s still got some work to do. To be clear, the use of stickers isn’t a new phenomenon—we’ve reported on it before—but it’s especially unfortunate considering Meta’s recent efforts to bolster the effectiveness of this exact LED. Last month, Meta rolled out an update meant to prevent its smart glasses from recording if the LED is tampered with or destroyed.
- ▪Meta might be trying to make its smart glasses less creepy, but if recent reports are any indication, it’s still got some work to do.
- ▪To be clear, the use of stickers isn’t a new phenomenon—we’ve reported on it before—but it’s especially unfortunate considering Meta’s recent efforts to bolster the effectiveness of this exact LED.
- ▪Last month, Meta rolled out an update meant to prevent its smart glasses from recording if the LED is tampered with or destroyed.
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- ▪ Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy? — /r/Technology
- ▪ Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy? — WIRED
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Meta might be trying to make its smart glasses less creepy, but if recent reports are any indication, it’s still got some work to do. It turns out, as Engadget details, that the capture LED on the company’s smart glasses—intended to inform people that they’re being recorded—can easily be obscured.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000793943","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"meta,ray-ban-meta,smart-glasses,wearables","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); In a test with a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, Engadget found that the…
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