Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don't see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.

I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you're right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren't necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.

I would love overt google glass style glasses that are obvious as a solution for a dashcam like system for when i am driving, or tracking where I left mg keys etc. But as you say, the discreet camera is for perverts.

So much potential. Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people's names. Lyrics to any detected song so I can sing along. Virtual post-it note reminders in 3D space. Alerts or navigation while walking. Virtual monitors put on any surface.
But humans are too hung up on sex, so it's not going to happen.

Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these.

That's because the tech wasn't there yet. Otherwise, it would have been the same.

I don't understand how these are fundamentally different from the phone cameras that everyone points at everyone else already. holding a phone up isn't exactly conspicuous at this point.

schools should probably ban them for the case above, but schools should probably ban phones as well. in the US at least there's so expectation of privacy anywhere public and smart glasses are a tiny fraction of the doorbell cameras, security cameras, etc that are everywhere

it feels like we're approaching a circlejerk level of being against smart glasses in general, which do have a ton of interesting use cases that aren't recording related (but still require a camera for position tracking etc). the "pervert glasses" position is intentionally obtuse

I kind of like the idea. Take some pictures while doing other things like riding your bike or going on a hike without having to take out your phone. Take a quick picture while shopping to them to my wife. Get navigation cues without the phone. But they are so creepy

In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert

fucking blind perverts /s

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/the-life-changing-magic-of-wearing-smartglasses

As the chief executive of a charity supporting people with a visual impairment, however, I would like to emphasise the point touched upon in your article: how transformative this technology is already proving for blind people.

Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.

I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.

When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)

When I was 16 and started working, I quickly had enough money saved from working minimum wage, part time, to buy myself a car. It's not impossible.

Also, these may be kids/young adults, but they should all know right from wrong. Blame is absolutely on the students who use these too.

Rich kids. The worst type as they're also the least likely to get meaningfully punished.

No different to mobile phones or iPods or PlayStations. Pair of meta raybans are arguably cheaper than those items now due to inflation.

$99 I believe Kmart in Australia charges for the Anko ones.

Not sure what they connect to though

This. My friend in HS went to guidance multiple times to complain about being bullied by another classmate. After the 2nd or 3rd time requesting thy switch his class, they decided to resolve the issue by forcing them to be partners for an assignment in class. He complained again, and was told to deal with it. One day my friend finally cracked and broke the bully's nose because he had enough and clearly the school was only willing to make this worse, so they called the police on my friend. It's pretty insane how some things get dealt with sometimes.

Schools don't care about bullying or sexual harassment as long as it doesn't look bad on them. If it can be swept under the rug, they will ignore it.

At least that is my experience from schools in the UK.

In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.

Exactly, they always protect the bullies.

And they'll complain loudly when they end up on tea for women or similar sites in the blacklist section.

Yeah. The kids are just the last part of the chain of failure here. Why is Meta producing such a thing? Why the fuck are parents buying several hundred dollars worth of spy glasses for their children and sending them to school with them without any supervision? And what the fuck is the school doing here? The first report of someone harassing other pupils with such a device should be reason to ban them and take hard discipline measures against the harrasser

The glasses shouldn’t exist but what parents are buying these for their kids?! Blame the parents too.

These kids absolutely know it's wrong. Stop enabling bullies. The kids should NOT get a pass for this just because some corporation did something wrong first.

supplier first then the chain...everyone is blamed

And a lot of enabling parents.

10000000%

What social contract? The kids wearing these can't value something they've never known.

the only 3 usecases for these are:

Assholes

Perverts

Blind people - sucks for them, because the first two are going to ruin it before it benefits anyone with disabilities

Crime usually comes before punishment. Right now the system is working it's way into figuring out how to deal with this new social dynamic. Like you, I think it's pretty straightforward. We won't solve the core reason for the bullying dynamics though. I think humans that adhere to gendered thinking will be behind on that for a good long while yet.

You assume that action will actually be taken on the perpetrators here.

Here they're not even allowing students to carry

Thought for sure you were setting up an “Americans Love Guns” joke.

Yeah who the hell is buying creeper glasses for kids to wear at schools. This is messed up.

Ah-hahaha, what a joke.

Is there any actual data to support the claim you're making, or are you taking a few viral videos and using them as a means to support your own implicit bias?

their mother's what?

And if you physically abuse them, theyll become physically abusive.

Grow up.

So the same bullying that always happens is now visible and that's the core problem people see. The glasses, not the bullies wearing them or the bullying recorded. Watch teachers and schools fight the recording, that make evidence fall right into their laps, so they can go back to ignoring bullying in their schools and then act shocked when serious fights, or worse happen.

Creeps exist above 18 years old too...

in what world is age restricting a relatively normal camera a reasonable decision?

Make them famous.

I'm a teacher. I don't know how they pull this of - but even kids from poorer families tend to carry some very expensive gadgets around all day. Stuff I wouldn't afford with my 4k salary because it would be completely unreasonable.

They do.

They aren't actually all that common, especially outside the US, but you probably also wouldn't notice them: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/travel-products/a69461056/ray-ban-meta-glasses-review/ https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-collection-review

They just look like glasses if you're not looking closely. You have to specifically look for the camera or the big arms.

In the 90s we didn't have kids recording things for clout and follows. Kids with camcorders were the alt or nerd crowd doing it for themselves or at most local cable access.

In the 90s, camcorders were a relative novelty and nobody had any reason to be anxious about being filmed because there was no way to easily share video with millions of strange people maliciously for clout. If you were caught doing something funny, you might appear on TV after signing a release. (e.g. America's Funniest Home Videos) Sharing video on the internet was a practical technical impossibility, and people had mostly private lives. You're right it's not really the glasses, it's the internet and social media. I wouldn't be surprised if the first person POV provided by glasses makes content like that more compelling, though, and thus more common.

People covertly filmed for malicious reasons even back then of course, but it was not generally made available to the masses.

If I have a point, it's that I don't think this is evidence that we're more fucked up now than we were then, just that technology has enabled new kinds of abuse that were inconceivable back then.

Yeah, our society is fucked, that's what

I mean, why do you think they are targeting women in the first place?

Women, the most historically and universally oppressed group in humanity?

I like reading new words

Why are you so mad about learning a new word? It's even faster to look their meaning today thanks to the internet.

Guess you never ran across that kids book from the 70s. Apparently it also became a Seattle mascot. Anyway I never thought of it as a fancy word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheedle

Your comment is 100% poppycock.

Uh, that is a very basic word. It may be that is looks odd in print, but it's pretty common.

This has nothing to do with flirting. They harass girls to feel in control and take out their dating frustration on someone else

I think about the issues with modern dating often, flirting included. One of my perspectives is dating culture is an extension of social culture which is an extension of communal culture, and unfortunately communal culture is dying in America. From something as common as college kids getting educated out of state then starting their career at a 3rd location, to something more systemic like the formation of the rust belt, local communities have been eroding.

Without an established generational history of people talking, connecting, enjoying each other, flirting, and dating no one can really know the difference between expressing interest and harassment as that difference now depends on what your algorithm says and what your echo chambers reinforce.

In short everyone is playing by a different set of social rules, video games may play a part in this via social isolation, but I think the greater socioeconomic system we're all bound to is much more culpable.