Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
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remember when the google glasses came out, i saw a guy in public transport wearing it, was so silly. and yea people are going to try to watch porn on it.
In Japan, it’s a law that even software cameras have to make a loud “shutter” sound to guard against voyeuristic photography.
There’s a little cottage industry of third-party camera apps on the Japanese App Store that do little more than replace the default shutter sound with a custom sound… like silence.
I’m going to mod my regular glasses with a couple of ultra-bright IR LEDs and hope that these cameras do a crappy job of filtering it out.
If the mechanism exists for a app to switch it off, you can guarantee that Meta is using it all the time.
Apps can’t (normally) switch it off. That’s why you need a hardware mod to disable it.
I guess taping the light is too hard?
Meta has designed the glasses to not work if someone covers up the LED with tape.
That’s a lot better than I’d give them credit for.
I have seen my colleague look at them. And he also looked at some custom made tape, with small holes in them. So just enough light gets in, so it won’t disable the recording function. But it still hides the light so others can’t see it…
The Snapchat(?) glasses would turn off if you covered the LED.
That’s a lot for a drop of black paint…
Painting over the LED doesn’t work. There is a sensor in there that detects this, somehow (I don’t know exactly how). The pricetag is a testament to how much effort has gone into making it hard to bypass, but it’s obviously not going to be impossible.
