Ray-Ban and Facebook introduce Ray-Ban Stories, first-generation smart glasses

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Creepy.

I’m honestly intrigued by this attitude, and it’s shared by so many people. What is it you consider creepy? Always having a camera ready? That’s already the case with everyone having smartphones. Is it being “secretly” recorded? Because that again seems more likely to happen with people hiding or covering smartphones that are filming than someone starring directly at you.

I think one key factor is that almost no one will expect glasses or sunglasses to also be cameras or video recorders.

Consider if you’re in a locker room, and today you see someone with their iPhone aimed at you, there’s a good chance they could be taking a picture or a video. Now you have to be concerned about whether or not their glasses or sunglasses are taking a picture or video of you.

It’s a violation of expectation of privacy due to an unexpected new type of “spycam”.

Since the light turns on when the camera is on I don’t think it’s creeepy… if there wasn’t a notification light then it would be creepy.

Allegedly.

No one will ever figure out how to block the light? Is that what you are going to go with!

You're right, people will suddenly have cameras in their pockets without an indicator light! How will we adapt to this brave new world?

It's a Ray-Cam

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