When Google Glass was around there was a big social pushback. Have we accepted the use of these devices around ourselves since then?
Do also note that people wear glasses in private settings as well as public.
You're trying to assuage my concerns with the information about the light. That's Meta responding to these concerns and taking efforts to avoid upsetting anyone.
But once the market is proven then another set of glasses will be marketed as having the feature of silent recording. By that time the force of the market will be too great and my concerns will be laughed at and I'll be called a luddite and told I never should have had an expectation of privacy to begin with.
This is the embrace before the inevitable extinguish.
I'm not based in the US so hopefully some local laws will help me out a bit, but at the end of the day, the law is not my moral barometer. I will respect the rights of the users of these devices while also exercising my own rights, as much as I am able to, to treat them as social pariahs.
Glass was obviously an early experimental design with loads of shortcomings, but at least in concept, a personal HUD was fairly interesting. I didn't care about the camera and found it disappointing that it was the only part people seemed to focus on. Isn't this just the camera/mic bit without the cool part, tied to a Facebook/Meta account instead of a Google one?
I agree $1500 was a bit steep for something barely above prototype level, but this is basically an earbud/mic that allows me to take hands-free photos - something I do maybe a few times per year.