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Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses (www.macrumors.com)
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Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called "Name Tag," and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants the feature to differentiate the devices and to make the AI assistant in the glasses more useful.

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[–] 29 points 8 months ago

The internal memo also said the "political tumult" in the United States was good timing for the feature's release.

Absolute nightmare way to think about a product launch.

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    [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Let's qo for always on mask and sun glasses then

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    • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Counter with your own glasses that have infrared LEDs to blind cameras.

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  • [+] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)
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    • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    How man dads are going to have to go to jail for beating the smartglasses guy ogling his kid before these things become socially toxic.

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Gonna be helpful identifying who punched you in the face for wearing stupid privacy disrespecting glasses.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, how many generations of these glasses until they don't look like this? I've worn glasses for 30 years and don't like contacts. As someone who HATES this kind of crap and will never wear a pair of these, I dread the day when you can't tell the difference and everyone with glasses is a potential privacy risk.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Around the time anyone with glasses becomes a risk, anyone with or without glasses becomes a risk. At that point miniaturisation will be so advanced that any button or zipper could house the components... and they will.

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    • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    The surveillance state really coming in full force in 2026

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Smart glasses disrespecting people's privacy? Ugh. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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