Meta has come under fire recently for its smart glasses, especially after launching the Meta Glasses a few months ago. They’re also being banned in more and more places, but that isn’t slowing down the development of new features.
In a filing, Meta has sought approval to use technology that can automatically generate clips from recorded videos and detect who’s in a shot and their relationship to the user. This is from a patent that describes built-in facial recognition to identify who is in a frame, and how videos are created. Clips are generated and labeled with who’s in them.
A good example is a video taken at a dinner party; then the AI would ask the wearer if they want to see generated highlights of the event.
Meta’s patent filing describes this as a tool to “assist users in any suitable camera-based task by any suitable system in any suitable manner.”
While this sounds pretty cool, Meta Glasses are currently limited to 3- and 5-minute videos, so you’re not going to have an hour-long recording clipped up. It’s also going to raise a few eyebrows, given how little Meta cares about privacy.
Users are creating apps to identify Meta Glasses around them.
Since launching the Meta Glasses (without Ray-Ban and Oakley branding), Meta has had a pretty big ad campaign pushing these glasses everywhere, which is bringing up a lot of pushback from users, particularly on Threads – ironically, a Meta app. People are worried about being recorded without their knowledge, especially given how many people have gone to extreme lengths to deactivate the LED recording light. To Meta’s credit, it has now pushed out an update that will brick your glasses if the LED light is tampered with at all.
This has pushed several users to create apps that are scanning nearby to find Meta Glasses. Which is silly, because this would only work if the Bluetooth connection is currently scanning (i.e., not actually connected but trying to connect to your phone). On top of that, there’s not much a user can do if one is nearby. Of course, the thousands of cameras on street corners recording 24/7 are fine, people only have an issue with Meta Glasses.
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