This isn’t the first time they tried to do this…

Earlier this year, Meta began adding facial recognition code into an app for its smart glasses which could identity strangers.

A Swedish newspaper revealed that sensitive footage from these glasses was being used to train Meta AI.

Meta backtracked, removing the tech from their glasses.

But now…they’re once again planning to embed this intrusive tech into their creepy eyewear.

Whilst the EU is reining in facial recognition, Britain’s wild-west approach means that this Orwellian software could be a gift to stalkers, sex offenders and domestic abusers.

Read the full story: https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/patent-filing-suggests-metas-facial-recognition-glasses-are-coming/

The public blowback to Meta’s contentious smart glasses continues to grow.

The popular camera-equipped accessories, which have earned the pejorative nickname of “pervert glasses,” are systematically being abused by men to harass women in public .

It’s become such a contentious issue that a German nonprofit filed a criminal complaint over privacy concerns. Just this week, England and Wales banned the glasses from courts.

In a particularly egregious example of the kind of harassment the glasses are enabling, a user who goes by Mark filmed himself accosting British comedian Diane Morgan, widely known as the fictional documentarian Philomena Cunk, during a TV shoot on Hollywood’s iconic Walk of Fame.

“Excuse me, can I get your phone number,” Mark asks a taken-aback Morgan in a video titled “rizzing on cunk,” which was originally uploaded to TikTok in May and which has since accumulated over one million views. His Instagram account appears to have been taken down.

Polarizing Shades
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
“A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/backlash-meta-pervert-glasses-afraid?fbclid=IwdGRjcATCIXVjbGNrBMIhRmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHln0QGSAYArOU-ui2RKWAzCib0L1y1Ye6Aq6LhKX6hyZt4t0Jeoqzvyj_d_3_aem_LstDveVVuzrgIzNIDbborw

Meta’s camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports.

Influencers, mostly men, have been using the glasses to inconspicuously — and non-consensually — capture footage of themselves approaching women and attempting to hit on them, interactions they’ve then posted online for content. Some wearers have even attempted to extort victims of covert recordings for cash. That’s on top of serious allegations of alleged privacy breaches by Meta itself.

Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses — and top Meta executives are fuming.

Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine’s journalists. The unreleased feature, internally dubbed “NameTag,” would “transform faces captured by Meta’s glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and check each one against faceprints stored on the user’s phone — a database that’s currently configured to receive updates from Meta,” as Wired put it.

Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

‘All AI glasses owners get free monthly usage for certain features.’

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/959899/meta-ai-glasses-paywall-rate-limit

https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-connect-2026-date-announcement/

Linux folks are used to having to roll many of their own solutions, and better Linux desktop usability is a goal of the WayVR project, which aims to provide desktop control and app launching from within a VR session.

VR applications can already stream from Linux to standalone headsets with projects like WiVRn, but what WayVR does is let one launch programs and access desktop screens within VR. Put another way, instead of the headset being limited to acting as a pseudo-monitor that only receives the output of an already-running VR application, the headset and controllers can now be used to interact with one’s computer as if one were physically sitting at it. Controls and user interface are highly flexible and help users to do anything they need — including clicking, typing, and launching applications. It’s a considerable step forward for convenience and general usability.

https://github.com/wayvr-org/wayvr