As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

The people demand meta glasses! And AI! And pedophiles! And transphobia! And dying of easily preventable diseases! And the people want to shit their pants until they die!

The people want these things we promise!

Exactly one year ago, EssilorLuxottica told its investors that the Ray-Ban Meta glasses had sold 2 million units so far, a period spanning from the launch in October 2023 until February 2025.

Now, during its Q4 2025 earnings report, the company announced that it sold 7 million units of Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses in 2025 alone – meaning more than triple that of 2024. This suggests that around 9 million have been sold to date since the launch of Ray-Ban Meta two and a half years ago.

"Explodes" might be a bit of hyperbole, but sales have been increasing, and are projected to continue. This doesn't mean it will happen of course, and the numbers are in dollars, not in units sold, so inflation is at play here.

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It's like when a republicans book makes it to a top sellers list, it's really just them buying thousands of copies to make it look like it's going well.

It's in the news so it's true now

It is starting to feel like Meta is actively catering to the contrarian douche market, like the idiots who bought Cybertrucks. This also increases the likelihood of creep shots because there is bound to be a lot of overlap there.

ICE is actually a damned good argument in favour of these glasses

Young males? We have ample proofs that the pervs men subset covers the whole range of ages from teens to old creeps.

I wish it could send a full delete command to their account.

Yeah, this unfortunately. You and me both, I don’t like the ai pervert glasses

not even that unthinkable, at least for basic machine vision (4k recording are probably not going to work). Powered by induction and using low power electronics might be able to get there; although if you arent fine with implanting induction coils in your cheekbones or under your eyebrows with attached energy storage implanted it might be a bit invasive. At that point it would be preferable to develop Cybereyes - a biointerface connecting your eye nerves using a biochip paired with a camera; the space that's left in the eyesocket is probably big enough for enough energy storage for a day. Don't forget to charge overnight tho, you might go temporarily blind.

Your second description is STILL less perverted than meta glasses.

O.G. Google glass that projected image straight in your eye.

sorry to yuck your yum, but that's not how they worked. it was a tiny, transparent screen on google glass, about 10mm tall and 20mm wide. a waveguide pumped the image at a refractive layer in the bit that sits in front of your eye, allowing you to see the projected image on top of the real world.

I think you grossly underestimate the number of perverts out there, and severe their cases are.

I hope the pervert glasses capture every blow.

Id immediately tell that supervisor I don't consent to being filmed in the workplace. Then straight to hr to say the same. If nothing changes then I'd be off to find a new job wtf.

it's not the people I know I worry about, it's the creeps.

yep. and meta keeps putting face-id tech in the API, but then saying they won't do it, but then putting it back in.

we're a couple of steps away from a surveillance state with eyes in the crowds.

I have a coworker who has them. Takes some amazing videos of fiber splicing. But just like the vr headset, I just can't bring myself to buy Meta crap.

I'd like to see that too, but R&D costs for a product like this are enormous so I doubt it'd happen any time soon.

Don't do that

I get the point, but that will instantly destroy someone's life and land you justifiably in jail for a very long time

With all the evil happening around us, your revenge fantasy is on perverts with cameras?