Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all
When Meta used superstar Kylie Jenner to promote its sleek new line of “spy glasses”, the social media company hoped the devices would reach the same broad acceptance that tablets and smartwatches have found before them.
But those plans have hit a snag in the UK, where venues from elite restaurants to popular pub chains have banned the £359 glasses in order to preserve the privacy of customers and staff.
Celebrated restaurateur Jeremy King, owner of London venues including Simpsons in the Strand, Arlington and The Park, said guests should not wear the recording glasses.
He told the Guardian: “I would never knowingly allow any invasion of guest privacy other than with the eyes we were born with.”
I would think theaters would have banned these instantly to prevent movie piracy. The fact that they haven’t really shows how thoughtless they are regarding how piracy actually happens.
Most of the cam copies I’ve seen are trash, I’m pretty sure they’re not worried about cams as much as they are guys with tripods in the projection room (where most of the “good” cam copies come from.)
Even a trash cam produced today is usually miles ahead of what we were getting 15-20 years ago
Yeah, but holding it steady is the key to a decent cam, and sound is never as good.
Spyglasses wouldn’t do it, people move too much.
You are wildly overestimating how much battery life those things have.
They don’t care. Media piracy doesn’t actually hurt them. The people that care about media piracy are basically the patent trolls of the media world who buy up blocks of music and video and collect royalties.