Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.

Rich kids. The worst type as they're also the least likely to get meaningfully punished.

I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.

When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)

No different to mobile phones or iPods or PlayStations. Pair of meta raybans are arguably cheaper than those items now due to inflation.

When I was 16 and started working, I quickly had enough money saved from working minimum wage, part time, to buy myself a car. It's not impossible.

Also, these may be kids/young adults, but they should all know right from wrong. Blame is absolutely on the students who use these too.

$99 I believe Kmart in Australia charges for the Anko ones.

Not sure what they connect to though

This. My friend in HS went to guidance multiple times to complain about being bullied by another classmate. After the 2nd or 3rd time requesting thy switch his class, they decided to resolve the issue by forcing them to be partners for an assignment in class. He complained again, and was told to deal with it. One day my friend finally cracked and broke the bully's nose because he had enough and clearly the school was only willing to make this worse, so they called the police on my friend. It's pretty insane how some things get dealt with sometimes.

Schools don't care about bullying or sexual harassment as long as it doesn't look bad on them. If it can be swept under the rug, they will ignore it.

At least that is my experience from schools in the UK.

In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.

Exactly, they always protect the bullies.

I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don't see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.

I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you're right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren't necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.

I would love overt google glass style glasses that are obvious as a solution for a dashcam like system for when i am driving, or tracking where I left mg keys etc. But as you say, the discreet camera is for perverts.

So much potential. Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people's names. Lyrics to any detected song so I can sing along. Virtual post-it note reminders in 3D space. Alerts or navigation while walking. Virtual monitors put on any surface.
But humans are too hung up on sex, so it's not going to happen.

I don't understand how these are fundamentally different from the phone cameras that everyone points at everyone else already. holding a phone up isn't exactly conspicuous at this point.

schools should probably ban them for the case above, but schools should probably ban phones as well. in the US at least there's so expectation of privacy anywhere public and smart glasses are a tiny fraction of the doorbell cameras, security cameras, etc that are everywhere

it feels like we're approaching a circlejerk level of being against smart glasses in general, which do have a ton of interesting use cases that aren't recording related (but still require a camera for position tracking etc). the "pervert glasses" position is intentionally obtuse

In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert

fucking blind perverts /s

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/the-life-changing-magic-of-wearing-smartglasses

As the chief executive of a charity supporting people with a visual impairment, however, I would like to emphasise the point touched upon in your article: how transformative this technology is already proving for blind people.

Yeah who the hell is buying creeper glasses for kids to wear at schools. This is messed up.

Here they're not even allowing students to carry

Thought for sure you were setting up an “Americans Love Guns” joke.

What social contract? The kids wearing these can't value something they've never known.

the only 3 usecases for these are:

Assholes

Perverts

Blind people - sucks for them, because the first two are going to ruin it before it benefits anyone with disabilities

Crime usually comes before punishment. Right now the system is working it's way into figuring out how to deal with this new social dynamic. Like you, I think it's pretty straightforward. We won't solve the core reason for the bullying dynamics though. I think humans that adhere to gendered thinking will be behind on that for a good long while yet.

You assume that action will actually be taken on the perpetrators here.

Ah-hahaha, what a joke.

Creeps exist above 18 years old too...

So the same bullying that always happens is now visible and that's the core problem people see. The glasses, not the bullies wearing them or the bullying recorded. Watch teachers and schools fight the recording, that make evidence fall right into their laps, so they can go back to ignoring bullying in their schools and then act shocked when serious fights, or worse happen.

Are the glasses lens telephoto?

Those are the only ones the article says get damaged by the lidar

The glasses shouldn’t exist but what parents are buying these for their kids?! Blame the parents too.

supplier first then the chain...everyone is blamed

And a lot of enabling parents.

These kids absolutely know it's wrong. Stop enabling bullies. The kids should NOT get a pass for this just because some corporation did something wrong first.

10000000%

their mother's what?

And if you physically abuse them, theyll become physically abusive.

Grow up.