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Nearby Glasses
- elcapitan 7mo agoNow we only need tiny drones that locate those glasses, grab them and drop them on the nearby street.
- dwighttk 7mo agoAfter flying as high as they can go
- toomuchtodo 7mo agohttps://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/ https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wea...
- burkaman 7mo agoTried this on a Pixel 9, after allowing permissions the Start Scanning button does nothing, and there's nothing in the debug log. I do like the idea and might try again in the future if it gets updated. Seems like a good candidate for F-Droid instead of Google Play.
- Morizero 7mo agoI had to tap the sprocket in the top right and enable Foreground Service to get the button to work
- crustaceansoup 7mo agoOn my Pixel 9 this overlaps the status bar, and can't be clicked. I worked around that by split-screening it with another app.
- zoklet-enjoyer 7mo agoI'm having the same problem on a Pixel 7
- tantalor 7mo agoI'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.
- roughly 7mo ago50 years ago anti-social behavior included homosexuality.
- throwway120385 7mo agoAlso 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 7mo agoCan 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.
- emptybits 7mo 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.)
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- tamimio 7mo agoNeed 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 7mo agoan 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 7mo 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.
- luxuryballs 7mo agoI’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 7mo agoI 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 https://www.reflectacles.com/order/ghost
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- cpeterso 7mo agoCan the app run on smart glasses, warning you of other smart glasses users nearby? You might not see the notification on your phone.
- piskov 7mo agoThat would be like antropic and google crying about china stealing the weights that were originally built by scraping as fuck stolen content :-)
- serf 7mo ago> That would be like antropic and google crying about china stealing the weights that were originally built by scraping as fuck stolen content :-) do you really see a relation between the two, or are you just willfully 'buying an advertisement' by trying to shape a metaphor from the social qualms that you wish to rebroadcast to people? in other words, no -- this isn't at all similar to the companies that steal media in order to train models only to complain about similar theft from other companies targetted towards them -- but I agree with the motivation, fuck em; they're crooks... but don't weaken metaphors simply to advertise a social injustice. If you want to do that, don't hijack conversations abroad.
- piskov 7mo agoWell, at least Chinese paid for api access and all the tokens.
- pavel_lishin 7mo ago"Glasses detected within 3 inches."
- qmr 7mo agoCheeky
- mrbluecoat 7mo agoAdd satellite imagery, nearby self-driving vehicles / Google maps cars, line-of-sight ring doorbells, peripheral street surveillance cameras, police equipment, people in your proximity with a smartphone camera, and various-purpose drones and then you'll have the perfect paranoia alerter.
- nickorlow 7mo agoA big red screen that always says "yes"?
- randallsquared 7mo ago...people with neuralink or similar, in a year or three.
- Nition 7mo agoCould even have their locations show up in your smart glasses.
- thih9 7mo agoThe fact that people dislike so strongly only a subset of these recording devices also means something. Part of it is people being unaware. But also: wearers of smart glasses have a reputation. I guess the question is, is the glasshole reputation deserved.
- riffraff 7mo agoI think it's mostly that smart glasses are at the intersection of "will push stuff to public internet" and "does it stealthily". CCTV, self driving cars etc.. are (mostly) out of the first bucket, and phones are (mostly) out of the other bucket. Ring is a good contender and is also quite disliked.
- p_ing 7mo agoThe dichotomy between the statement in the repo "False positives are likely" and the app message "Smart Glasses are probably nearby" is interesting.
- burkaman 7mo agoI don't think those are contradictory. Say each notification has a 90% chance of being true, so it's reasonable to say "probably". After 10+ notifications, each of which was individually probable, it is still very likely that at least one of them was a false positive.
- mathfailure 7mo agoThat's not a dichotomy.
- scotty79 7mo agoPerceptions of probability: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F4omgy8xvzzx41.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D26397fa3c2b65be85aa3ef82b94cdfb842bc78cd https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
- catoc 7mo ago“When using the app you are likely to experience false positives, and when the app alerts you, smart glasses are probably nearby.” Nothing contradictory there. Even “…when the app alerts you, smart glasses are likely nearby” might be reasonable.
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- fusslo 7mo agohttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-g... > Judge Carolyn Kuhl, who is presiding over the trial, ordered anyone in the courtroom wearing AI glasses to immediately remove them, noting that any use of facial recognition technology to identify the jurors was banned. I am not a believer in Zuckerberg's idea of humanity's future.
- Refreeze5224 7mo agoThat's because you are intentionally not included in it. Only him and his rich owning class buddies are, the rest of us are only profit-generating NPCs.
- duxup 7mo agoIt's pointed AT US ... not for us.
- newyankee 7mo agoI was actually hoping it could be paired with speech to text very well and help along with hearing aids when the latter do not perfectly work. There are legitimate use cases.
- dec0dedab0de 7mo agoThis is really neat, I gotta find an android device to try it. Reminds me of the good old days of wardriving with kismet and netstumbler. I am surprised there isn't an existing BT/BTLE fingerprint table that takes more into account than just what is provided. I would assume each device, or atleast each chipset has subtle quirks that could be used to weed out some of the false positives. the link in the readme for the identifiers doesn't work because it's relative to the repo, so it is below. I like that they did this, it's so much better than the OUI table for mac addresses, because some companies (cough cisco) keep getting new ones. https://bitbucket.org/bluetooth-SIG/public/src/main/assigned_numbers/company_identifiers/company_identifiers.yaml https://bitbucket.org/bluetooth-SIG/public/src/main/assigned...
- paul7986 7mo agoBought 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.
- cole-k 7mo agoAre 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 7mo agoI 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).
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- bryanlarsen 7mo agoCurrently detects via Meta, Essilor or Snap company ID. So it won't detect my XReal's. I purposefully bought my XReal now because it feels like they might be one of the last models released without cameras. But theoretically I could have the XReal Eye attachment on my glasses, and could be taking video through that. I don't, but the XReal user next to me might. Of course the USB wire hanging from my ear probably makes me look suspicious enough already that the warning probably isn't necessary either way...
- nomel 7mo agoLooking at this almost unanimously negative comment section, on a tech website, it appears you should be concerned about your safety while wearing anything that could be seen as being "smart". I imagine a non-tech crowd would be even more negative. > for identifying creeps nearby > I recently had to interact with an idiot wearing meta glasses. > Would renaming to ”Nearby Glassholes” be acceptable as a PR? > If you're wearing these glasses and recording people in public, you're asking for a sweet punch in the face.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoGood.
- anonymous541908 7mo agoamen
- itishappy 7mo ago> I imagine a non-tech crowd would be even more negative. Weird, I'd assume the opposite. The meme is "tech enthusiasts vs tech workers" implying there are people who like tech and people who understand it enough to distrust it. This tech-crowd is more aligned with the latter.
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- btbuildem 7mo agoSooo technically this is on the edge of legal/not legal, depending on your intent and what the judge had for lunch that day. ID'ing devices without consent is a grey area at best.
- davidee 7mo agoFilming/video and lookups of people filtered through a corporate data mining operation without their consent should also be illegal. I'll take my chances, thank you. I recently had to interact with an idiot wearing meta glasses. There should be a mandatory consent requirement AND an "on air" red led.
- leephillips 7mo agoDo you mean in the courtroom or anywhere? Because filming and photographing people in public is legal everywhere in the U.S., and no consent is required.
- magicalist 7mo ago> Do you mean in the courtroom or anywhere? Because filming and photographing people in public is legal everywhere in the U.S., and no consent is required. First, note that "filming" in public is not necessarily legal in every state if you include recording audio of conversations you're not party to. Second, the GP said should be illegal without consent, so clearly was talking about what's they consider right, not necessarily what is. But most importantly, "filming and photographing people in public" is also obviously not what the GP was talking about. They said: > Filming/video and lookups of people filtered through a corporate data mining operation without their consent should also be illegal. And, actually, extracting biometrics from video of people and tracking them/data mining them without consent is in fact not legal in several states already, and potentially federal law, depending on what they do.
- pluralmonad 7mo agoIs this legal advice?
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- LlamaTrauma 7mo agorelevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1251/ https://xkcd.com/1251/
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- catoc 7mo agoWould renaming to ”Nearby Glassholes” be acceptable as a PR?
- micw 7mo agoGive it a try ^^
- heyheyhouhou 7mo ago2014, that name, similar thing https://julianoliver.com/projects/glasshole/ https://julianoliver.com/projects/glasshole/
- hedayet 7mo agoProjects like this are useful not only for identifying creeps nearby, but also for highlighting a broader issue: once AI glasses become common, everyone nearby becomes part of the experiment. I recently switched away from my usual brand when they started shipping AI-enabled glasses. That was my small way of opting out.
- m0llusk 7mo agoSo the bodycam that I have because of threats to my person is okay and somehow different?
- duxup 7mo agoI might be misreading your comment so that being said: If you wear a body cam because you feel threatened, hopefully you tell others that you're potentially recording them. The other catch is that the smart glasses do more than simply record video such as facial recognition and so on. Often these are things that have privacy ramifications that neither the wearer or the observer know exactly.
- m0llusk 7mo agoIn public you should assume you are being recorded on video. The idea that my bodycam can't be connected to cloud identification tools is weird.
- duxup 7mo agoThat doesn’t seem to actually address anything I said.
- ehnto 7mo agoDo you misunderstand the risks or just accept them personally? The issue is usually that you are imposing the risks onto others without consent. I did not sign the terms and conditions of your cloud providers data collection. You can be recorded in public, it is not a forgone conclusion that everyone can be run through data capture systems without their consent, society is still working through that. We can still decide on a more fair outcome.
- itishappy 7mo agoNo, that honestly sounds like something I'd prefer to avoid being around too.
- heyheyhouhou 7mo agoThis is similar to this 2014 project https://julianoliver.com/projects/glasshole/ https://julianoliver.com/projects/glasshole/
- nephihaha 7mo agoThis is a real issue. I met up with someone for lunch today and we have both been harassed and stalked by the same individual. She has called the police about him before, and he is likely a psychopath. He would love to get his hands on a set of these. He already uses multiple phones and other tech to track people.
- Slapping5552 7mo agoI see the privacy issues with smart glasses. But as someone who can really use the features for daily use - visual assistance (low vision), alwyas worn set of speakers (no need to futz around with airpods everytime i want to listen to audio without looking like a dork)... I really can't wait for android XR smart glasses (sans display)
- drdaeman 7mo agoI believe the problem is not smart glasses per se, but spyware that runs on a lot (if not most) of such devices. Shame the language makes people intrinsically hate the former by associating it with the latter without even questioning it. The idea of smart glasses is cool, the implementations are not.
- itishappy 7mo agoSmart glasses are spyware. The ability to record without my knowledge or consent is what I take issue with. I don't particularly care if you self host.
- nomel 7mo ago> The ability to record without my knowledge or consent All major brands have a clear indicator for when they're recording. Someone could block that indicator out, but someone could also just go to Amazon.com and select one of hundred of available pinhole cameras or not-smart camera glasses. These aren't enabling an ability that hasn't been enabled for decades. If anything, seeing someone with main brand smart glasses makes it more obvious.
- itishappy 7mo agoExisting alternatives also make me uncomfortable for the exact same reasons. I would prefer to avoid anyone who purchases a pinhole camera for public use, regardless of whether it came with an LED to indicate recording. To their credit, smart glasses are an obvious signal for me to avoid. That doesn't make me appreciate them any more.
- ehnto 7mo agoWe are really getting into the cyberpunk dystopia now. Adversarial tech in everyday wearables, hardware cat and mouse. Next step is offence as defence, ICE daemons counter hacking autonomously in the background.
- qmr 7mo agoAre we not doing "glassholes" anymore?
- ddtaylor 7mo agoTried this on my moto g 128GB - 2025 (XT2513V) running Android 16. Here is some rapid fire feedback. I opened this in a pretty heavily populated area in Baltimore. There wasn't anyone likely near using glasses and no detections were made, but the debug log flew by absurdly quickly likely because there are a ton of Bluetooth devices nearby. The start scanning button doesn't change to stop scanning, but it does seem to toggle scanning. The top bar is overlapping with the notification bar area. The bottom is truncated slight by my 3 button gesture bar thing. I am old and use the very ancient back, home and multi task buttons that are always visible because I am old. When I first granted permission the app seemed to just lock up and wouldn't do anything until I restarted it. I gave it both the permissions it wanted and tried fiddling with stuff, but it didn't seem to redraw and I couldn't get the settings to open until after I restarted. When I first started I think I was connected to my headset, which then disconnected after the permission request?
- johannes1234321 7mo agoAside from the project itself: They are eusing a "Polyform License" I haven't encountered that before. So it's not "open source" as many people might expect from GitHub and Polyform licenses seem to inherit the "what exactly is the boundary between non-commercial and commercial" issue as do CC licenses. https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses/blob/main/LI... https://polyformproject.org/ https://polyformproject.org/
- genewitch 7mo agoI use CC for most of my "work", and it's pretty clear to me what "commercial" means. If someone uses my work to earn any money, then it's commercial. Unless they contact me and explain why it isn't, then i can grant them a license that allows them that. This is only relevant if the CC is CC-NC, otherwise commercial use is "ok". it's pretty straightforward.
- johannes1234321 7mo agoIs it commercial if a non-profit sports club uses it to collect member fees? Is it fornprofit if I use it and somewhere in a small note on my website it has a way to give me a tip? It's trivial to come up with more such cases. And you being fine with my usage, doesn't mean I can rely on it. And then let's go international. In case of doubt the answer is to avoid it, which can be fine and match the author's intention. However it can be nom-trivial.
- genewitch 7mo ago> If someone uses my work to earn any money, then it's commercial. it really is that simple. It's meant for creative works, but not just; if i make a song and license it CC-NC, you can't use it in a video if that video gets ad revenue, patreon, snail-mail donations. > Meaning "done for the sake of financial profit" (of art, etc.), "prepared for the market or as an article of trade" is from 1871. It is trivial, unless you are looking for loopholes to get around licensing.
- jelder 7mo agoIt would be a shame if somebody modified this to trigger Bluetooth and Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks.
- digitalsushi 7mo agomeddlesome priests? there's always room for another software arms race. the personal area network is not ready and the evolution will be painful and good for someone - us, or them, without regard for what those divisions are, it's going to hurt.
- webdoodle 7mo agoI just re-watched Ghost in the Shell SAC Laughing Man last night, and wouldn't mind seeing these things get hacked with the Laughing Man logo replacing any face it was looking at, re-writing signs, etc.
- fortran77 7mo agoI don’t want to be attacked by some vigilante for using speech to text glasses.
- OrangeMusic 7mo ago- People can film you on their phone, while seemingly just browsing a webpage. - People can film you with a hidden miniature camera - People who want to discreetly film people without their knowledge won't use smart glasses, because they're too obvious