Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m going to mod my regular glasses with a couple of ultra-bright IR LEDs and hope that these cameras do a crappy job of filtering it out.

  • AeronMelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In Japan, it’s a law that even software cameras have to make a loud “shutter” sound to guard against voyeuristic photography.

    There’s a little cottage industry of third-party camera apps on the Japanese App Store that do little more than replace the default shutter sound with a custom sound… like silence.

  • joeljoelle@piefed.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well I’m not sure if I need a light to indicate that I need to avoid people wearing these glasses.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Painting over the LED doesn’t work. There is a sensor in there that detects this, somehow (I don’t know exactly how). The pricetag is a testament to how much effort has gone into making it hard to bypass, but it’s obviously not going to be impossible.