This is exactly what I thought when I first saw them. The LED can be easily covered, and they look too much like normal sunglasses for the average person to notice.
Day after day, my loathing for Facebook grows.
Day after day, my loathing for Facebook grows.
Cue the chilling effect of having to worry about being recorded whenever you're talking around someone wearing Raybans in public. And before the claims about it not being worse than everyone having a smartphone, etc, it absolutely is - it's far more obvious if someone has their phone in hand.
This sounds like a complement, to be honest. If we get awesome, real, AR glasses because Zuckerberg is jealous, then more power to him.
That contemptuous attitude and attempts to profit from privacy invasion is almost omnipresent among companies these days.
On the subject of glasses that can record what you see, wasn't Google the first company to market them? There was a similar backlash against them too back then.