I agree, I laugh out loud at that pun.

> most things which would need to be protected from hidden cameras would be stationary

Counter-sniper systems that scan for reflections from optics have existed for twenty years already. These are indeed meant for static operation in military bases and other fixed installations.

Isn't the biggest mobile use case where you don't want to be secretly recorded in public? This was a big concern with the original Google Glass.

I could see these being worn by walking-around security in a place where filming by the audience isn’t allowed. Super cool.

It's me. I want to be protected from hidden cameras from other peoples glasses.

You have no right to record me or my family, pedophile or not. In fact where I live its illegal.

If not responding to polite request, closed fist at non-trivial speed aimed directly at your face is the next inevitable step against predators of any kind, non-trivial risk of losing sight due to broken glasses is part of the deal.

Your choice.

Tangentially related it's also useful to quickly gauge if your smarts-wielding neighbors are home or not so noise levels can be adjusted accorsingly (:

> blocking/jamming the specific wireless traffic would be pretty interesting, if possible.

And probably highly illegal.

Thank you! To settle a debate between me and a friend, do you think Ray-BANNED or Ban-Rays is the better name?

One of my future ideas was to have the detection trigger turning a bunch of IR LEDs on to do just this! I've only tested it a little bit against my phone camera (with around 5 850nm LEDs), but it didn't work super well (fairly bright but not enough to be useful). It did work much better in low-light though. My guess is modern cameras have better IR-cut filters, but like I mentioned I only tested against my phone and not the Ray-bans yet.

I heard about similar hats being used during the Hong Kong protests, but most modern cameras filter out IR anyway. Reflective jackets tend to work much better; they basically turn you into an overexposed bright blob on camera.

Well, there's https://www.nii.ac.jp/userimg/press_details_20121212.pdf

I think fooling facial recognition systems and CCTV-cameras-at-night is easier than fooling professional photographers. Most photograhers' cameras have IR filters, after all. And nobody's got an LED brighter than the sun.

I have been thinking of a device to thwart license plate readers by dumping a ton of IR and/or visible light on the plate before it gets read.

Perhaps combined with some reflective coating? Retroreflectors are promising

What about correlating transmitted wireless frames with a LED flashing pattern? If the glasses stream video with a variable bitrate codec over wireless, flashing vs. non-flashing should change bandwidth and therefore frame frequency. However, with searching over all channels this might be quite slow in practice.

the esp32 in the side of the head should give it away

Why is it illegal?

How about Elton John's windshield wiper glasses?

https://fabukmagazine.com/elton-john-glasses-in-the-frame-at...

If the top-level poster succeeds, the resulting device could possibly disable devices that allow blind people to see. This could open up another liability channel.

there's a lovely documentary by a blind British comedian about exactly this: https://connect.open.ac.uk/seeingintothefuture/

Every time I read about smart glasses I wonder the same thing. Obviously the technology isn’t perfect, but it seems that even a basic pair of smart glasses with primitive image processing could be life-changing for a completely blind person. Yet as far as I can tell, most blind people don’t use technology at all for this purpose.

Unfortunately, the HN website is extremely unfriendly to users relying on assistive technologies (lack of ARIA tags, semantic elements etc.), otherwise there might be more blind people commenting here who could shed light on such things, no pun intended.

Regular pairing, advertising and control likley use Bluetooth LE for simplicity and battery life. Streaming or transferring video likley use Bluetooth classic for increased bandwidth.

These are two different protocols with different radio behaviour.

So beyond detecting the glasses themselves, which seem like the focus of the project; detecting recording is feasible at the point of transfer to a phone.

The issue is distinguishing it from any other high bandwidth Bluetooth device nearby, such as headphones.