Since Meta launched its AI-powered Ray-Bans, which can record video and audio as well as make calls, there’s been a growing privacy backlash against the specs, with many dubbing them “pervert” glasses after they were reportedly used to film people without their consent. (…)
Never one to miss an opportunity to take a public swipe at big tech, the alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has now launched a new range of glasses in collaboration with the San Diego firm Knockaround (…)
The twist: with their permanent offline mode, zero cameras and mics, no AI or electronics of any kind, the “California cool” Paso Robles have been hailed as “the world’s most innovative anti-surveillance sunglasses,” AKA "Normal F***ing Sunglasses” according to Knockaround’s website.
Thought they would be like glasses with IR emitters around them sp your face is washed-out.
Whelp, looks like I have a new project.
won’t work so well unfortunately.
LEDs are typically powered via PWM which can be easily ignored through shutter speeds.
I suppose you could have three differently timed sets of LEDs at randomly overlapping frames. though that itself would be difficult to maintain due to loose coupling and synchronization. you can see it happen with metronomes. electrical oscillators are similar and can be effected by other nearby components.
Couldn’t you just power them 100% of the time?
sure, but the only reason why LEDs are energy efficient is because of the PWM. they’re also designed to only operate at engineered runtimes too.
so not only will you need larger more energy dense batteries to run them, you’ll also only get half or even quarter the runtime out of them for running them at 100% of their runtime spec.
with many dubbing them “pervert” glasses after they were reportedly used to film people without their consent.
This was entirely predictable, and it’s remarkable that Meta could not foresee the PR nightmare.
Good on DuckDuckGo and Knockaround. Also, the marketing is brilliant.
Meta is completely aware of the pr nightmare this would cause. They don’t care. Collecting data at literally any cost is their business. No cost is too high.
The company founded on the idea of creating a non-consentual database of pictures of fuckable girls in collage is somehow not concerned with marketing pervert glasses? Colour me surprised.
