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.

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[+] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 27 points 11 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    If the mechanism exists for a app to switch it off, you can guarantee that Meta is using it all the time.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I guess taping the light is too hard?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I have seen my colleague look at them. And he also looked at some custom made tape, with small holes in them. So just enough light gets in, so it won't disable the recording function. But it still hides the light so others can't see it....

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's a lot for a drop of black paint...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 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.

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