These Smart Glasses Record More Than Most People Realize

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I bought Meta’s 2nd Generation Ray-Ban smart glasses for a privacy test I’ll be publishing in my next video — but after using them in public, I realized they raise much bigger questions.

In this video, I share my first impressions of the Meta Ray-Ban glasses, including photo quality, video quality, the ultra-wide camera, the recording indicator light, and the five-microphone audio array. I also test the No Glasshole app to see whether it can detect nearby smart glasses over Bluetooth.

The results were mixed. The camera was not very useful for reading license plates or identifying people from a distance, but the audio quality was far more concerning than I expected. These glasses are intentionally designed to capture voices around the wearer, and that raises serious privacy questions in coffee shops, restaurants, bars, parks, and other public or semi-public spaces.

More than a decade ago, Google Glass triggered a major public backlash. Some businesses even banned the glasses. But Meta Ray-Ban glasses are more capable, more discreet, and far more socially accepted.

So should businesses ban smart glasses again?

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LINKS TO MY SOURCES...
https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/electronics/RW4012ray-ban%20meta%20wayfarer%20-%20gen%202-black/8056262721377
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/digital-cameras/ray-ban-meta-gen-2-headliner-review-truly-smart-glasses-in-every-sense-of-the-word
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2013/04/rise-term-glasshole-explained-linguists/316015/
https://www.ft.com/content/ab339580-c08f-11e1-9372-00144feabdc0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/03/10/the-ban-on-google-glass-begins-and-they-arent-even-available-yet
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-glass-ban-san-francisco-2014-3
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers
https://www.theverge.com/tech/889637/meta-ai-smart-glasses-human-reviewers-kenya

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