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The frames in my profile photo are regular Ray Ban glasses and I stopped wearing them so I wouldn’t get accosted. 

There was a tie in the US where if certain people were filming certain things it would be regarded as suspicious but this was in the environment post 9/11

I can’t believe that people want the ability to record everything they encounter on a daily basis. It was recently reported that Michael Barrymore has been using something similar to ‘create content’ during day to day encounters with unsuspecting retail staff.

I keep thinking this whenever I see that places are banning them. Would your average doctor's receptionist recognise these for what they are, would anyone not in tech or very online realise?

Let’s be honest though, if anyone bought a Tesla in the last 5 years, they already knew what he was like.

Iv always had a general rule about ray-ban wearers, this just reinforces it.

Really? That is a good idea. I take that back about being banned then. There is me thinking your job was easy! 😂

The great thing for someone who has substantially lost vision is that the action of wearing glasses and looking at things is already a familiar habit. A low-vision wearer can hold a book or menu in the normal fashion and have the glasses read text into their ear.

They are great for blind and partially sighted people, though.

I wear a pair of ltd edition Ray-Ban Clubmaster prescription glasses with photochromic lenses. They are prominent frames & often paired with in-ear headphones that have a 'click to skip' button. Naturally I'm going to be accused at some point but I also don't want to ditch v.expensive specs.

Ray Ban them.

Unless you’re visually impaired there is no reason you need these. I will go so far as to say they are pointless and shit

ALL of the wearers are perverts and those sales records only have to be leaked once and we have a list of people to avoid/shame. The very people stripping our privacy away are creating a list that will one day reveal them for the perverts they are. In the creepchipper with all of them

Did you share your opinion with the shop? Mental these things are allowed

Dust, you say. Hmm

I now have to replace my non-pervert Ray-Bans.

And all facilitators should be called out. I don't want to use an optician that enables this I won't buy Ray-Bans until they stop making them

They look worryingly similar to my prescription shades

Have the disabled wear glasses with special markings? Attack everyone wearing them, the disabled be damned? Drive them off the market? None of these are good choices. I don't know the solution, but I hope the benefits of this tech can be preserved.

From Meta's wearables collection for nonces? 🥸

Hard to enforce if they look like normal glasses.

He can own the dystopian cyber world he creates even as real world burns.

www.ft.com/content/bdcf...

Privacy laws were never going to work once people had a digital video recorder that could broadcast live to the world for basically free. But the tech firms knew this. They hacked society to convince people it was what they wanted

The glasses will see everything so won’t be hard

More than the pokemon go heist ?

I’d missed that. Doesn’t surprise me. Not many cyclists could ever look as cool as The Badger did in his Raybans.

Pick a luxury eyewear brand and odds are it's owned by Luxottica www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/ey...

You might find this interesting/terrifying... www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-glass...

The only person I've ever known who owned something like this was a friend of a friend who later ended up in jail for abusing his niece. If you buy them you're literally just telling on yourself.

The issue is not just the video recording but also that the data stream goes via servers that can scan everything with face recognition, site recognition and there enable a deep tracking system and full data on Meta servers.

Visually impaired people do not need these things to be able to record, store or upload photos and videos. Enhancement and analysis in real time is the benefit there. They are also very clearly not the target market for this product, or the vast majority of its competitors.

I’m guessing it was Vision Express

Yes they can use their phone but upskirting becomes very obvious then

I think they should be banned because they are socially unacceptable, like smoking indoors.

The mobile requirements for Japan stipulate the use of a light when video is being taken. I added it to a phone for DoCoMo in about 2000

I’m old enough to remember having to implement the video LED feature on a mobile phone about 2000 as it was a legal requirement for Japan

Can only be a matter of time before someone comes up with a riff on the "should've gone to Specsavers" ads.

I didn't know that. It just gets worse.......

I didn't!

My mother in law who is almost completely blind has just invested in a pair of meta glasses. They will help her retain her independence allowing her to read cooking information on packaging, best before dates etc.

And don't buy anymore Ray-Ban products until they get their name off of these pervert glasses

At this point anyone who purchases ray-ban anything is complicit. That branding is enough. Those that are wearing ray-bans that aren't smart are allowing the smart ones to go unnoticed.

I went to the optician yesterday - the guy said, " do you like gadgets ?" I said no I want glasses !! 🤓

Put it on Urban Dictionary

Really annoys me - I used to like my Wayfarer Raybans! But they basically look the same as these..

bsky.app/profile/yuno...

Go elsewhere.

Great if you want to look like Stevie fucking Wonder 😂

might as well just spray paint HELLO I'M A PERVERT on every pair of ray bans in existence now, given that nobody can tell if they are or aren't

Have you seen the way men dress?

Seen my fair share over the years having been a nurse for the elderly....

All the best people wear Meta sunglasses

Ban Zuckerperv’s Meta glasses ⬇️ 👀

Very glad that I happened to replace my old bans that broke with Maui Jims. They weren't remotely the same style, but the name is gross now.

The thing is,you can tell the difference between the traditional raybans and the meta ones. Most people arent hyper brand aware So what's actually going to happen is the wayfarer style(or thick rim glasses in general) will now be associated with perverts. Dark times ahead for the vision impaired.

The parent company own (almost) every other brand so Rayban are just the sacrificial choice. It could easily be D&G, Starck, Ralph Lauren…

Ha yes it so does…

Soon to be marketed as X-Ray Banned.

Banningis already part of their name. Now, we are banning not just rays, but the entire brand.

I don't think there's anything wrong with camera glasses. Claiming anyone with a subtle camera is a pervert is a logical fallacy. Technological augmentation is the future. However, it should definitely not be made by an evil spyware company run by a subhuman parasite like meta.

Lots of benign uses of them. Just as you can easily have a discrete camera on your clothing We are moving into mass surveillance... govts have been doing it for ages and now individuals can do it Not sure it's a good thing, but banning glasses prob just means other personal recording devices

Pretty messed up of Ray-Ban to work with Meta on these. I guess making the best gent’s glasses in the world and earning steady money wasn’t enough for them.

I recently found my old pair of 90s Wayfarers and absolutely no way in hell am I wearing them again.

My daughter tried them yesterday, among other things being sold to her as a good option for keeping girls safe. She was massively unimpressed and came to the same conclusion. Also not impressed with translating everything within earshot if you are in a foreign country. All so questionable

Time to change Opticians, and let them know why you're changing.

Sadly I wear regular prescription Ray Bans and I’m now looking at ways to disguise the brand! 🫣

Hopefully people will appreciate that distinction.

I have the same frames as my prescription sunglasses. I wonder if RayBan can give me a refund…

Yes, there are disability use cases and the original AR concepts, plus no doubt cool Pokémon type stuff and weird live action roleplay. But would they sell it, or does viability depend on enabling pervs.

maybe a bit like the apple watch but with glasses. still, if this is still infeasible/not possible, then they always have the option to not make pervert glasses.

Still there, but so small you have to really know what to look for.

They are still supposed to have the LED for continuous filming from what i know, but instructions on how to bypass the LED are supposedly readily available. Then there's the facial recognition AI system that takes images every few seconds without the LED, if memory serves.

Designed for perverts by greedy fascists. Well done Rayban and Meta. You shouldn’t be in business.

But … then what will all the perverts do without them?

Ive just bought a pair ! doesn't make me a pervert?

Theoretically, you could print a QR code on your shirt that links to malware.

In which Wayfarer sales drop to zero.

I have a ‘normal’ pair of Wayfarer’s that are now redundant so I don’t get my face inadvertently kicked in.

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