I cannot emphasize enough how unwilling I'd be to interact with someone that has these.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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Good thing that the kind of person who would were these in public doesn't interact with others much anyway
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Cool... now everyone can be a part of their respective surveillance states. While Meta makes a buck on selling your feed to governments and law enforcement.
And serve ads directly in your eyeballs
Now we need a device that detects Meta Glasses and makes us invisible to them. I know this is a losing battle and it's just inevitable over time but I don't like having information provided to someone about me without my consent. With enough adoption, at some point we would all just need to have our own glasses to even the field.
high powered infrared leds at full blast? Just spitballing here
Pocket high power laser to burn out the camera ? Just make sure not to hit their eyes (or don't). /s
Worst part with Meta Quest is it seems you have to sign up as a dev and give them a credit card in order to sideload (a.k.a., install stuff on the device you purchased). So, you can shell out hundreds for one of their devices and the device and all your data are belong to Meta. I assume it’s the same deal with these glasses. Zuck off, Zuck.🖕
I got a voucher for a free pair of meta glasses. I don't want to order them. I'd need a meta account.
Wife is bugging me to order and resell and I want zero part of it.
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For me at least, the killer feature is going to be tagging faces with names. Face blindness sucks.
Edit: For the downvoters, in case you're unaware, I'm talking about a real life disability.
Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is a condition where individuals cannot recognize familiar faces, including their own, despite having normal vision and intellectual function. It can be congenital (present from birth), developmental, or acquired due to brain damage from injury, stroke, or disease. People with prosopagnosia rely on other cues like voice, hair, or clothing to identify people.
I have this, and I cannot stress enough how much this use case is not worth being recorded and tracked in public against my consent
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And that's also the main reason I don't want these to exist. I don't want to be identified by random people, and I especially don't want police to have access to something like this. People I spend time with know who I am, and I'm fine missing out on random same place/same time coincidences with people I knew from high school or something.
I'd want them to use a local database that you've created. After you've met someone, the glasses could be like "remember this person?" and you could choose to save them or not, or something like that.
Its meta so they'll get their hands on that data the way peoples numbers end up in metas hands despite not having a Facebook account because people gave the app permission to contacts.
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Yes. I'm all for an open specification, local only version of this.
But I don't think Meta releasing a set of smart glasses leaves anyone (other than possibly Zuckerberg) better off.
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Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face, is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing and intellectual functioning remain intact.
I'm talking about recognising people I've met and know.
I don't see how that could realistically happen without whichever company is behind the glasses taking all that juicy biometric data for themselves though.
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Sure. My point is that same technology can and will be used to violate peoples' privacy, and in some cases could create dangerous situations (e.g. domestic violence victim being recognized by their attacker).
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Yup, can't wait to be tracked without my consent everywhere I go because of other people that want to pay money to become employed for free by private and government companies.
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I don't have face blindness, but I can't remember names for the fucking life of me.
I learned about this recently in a anime!
The Apothecary Diaries - A main character has this disability.
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There's new glassholes?
All I need is a nu-metal revival and we're back in 2008 baby.
Oh man I'm wearing ray bans. I should get a new pair else I'd get lynched for it... again...
Imma just wait till a better brand makes em.
I’d use it solely for cooking recipes so I don’t go “ah have to flip page….washes hands… oh shoot I forgot the amount of that ingredient… washes hands…”
The cycle never ends
Or you can go old school and just have it on a piece of paper sitting right there... you could even reuse it... maybe put it away some place safe so it doesn't get lost with all the other ones you have decided to keep...
Apps like Crouton have a hands free mode which allows you step through the instructions by winking (right = forward, left = back).
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