Smart Glasses, such as the Meta Glasses, haven’t been as popular as people would expect. They’re just not optimized yet for day-to-day use. However, two students at Harvard University have demonstrated that the devices are ready to be used. Just not in a “good” way!
They have come up with a way to have facial recognition with these smart glasses to find out a lot of information just by looking at a person. They’ve tested this multiple times with different people in public and were almost always correct about the person.
Everything is done with Meta Glasses!
From the first generation of Snapchat’s sunglasses that could record, you now have normal-looking glasses that can live stream video directly onto social media. The students used a pair of Rayban Meta sunglasses in their experiment and called it I-XRAY. However, these glasses don’t have the processing power to have facial recognition or to give you direct information about people.
To get the information they live-streamed the video from Rayban Meta Glasses on an Instagram account. An AI scanned the screen to recognize when they were looking at a person. As soon as a person was clearly in frame, the AI went to look for similar images, names and much more. They collected the information in a summary which was then sent back to the operator’s phone. Everything worked almost instantly with little to no delay in getting the information.
A lot of Sensitive Information is “Available” with I-XRAY
Not only did the students show off some cool tricks their tech is capable of doing by using the Meta Glasses. They also showed how “Easy” it was to find out a lot of personal information about a person. Information such as phone numbers, email, house addresses, jobs and names of relatives were all discovered. To find this information the AI would go into public voter databases, published articles, social media pages and much more. Even public articles were scanned to find out more about these people.
Even though the students don’t have any ill intentions with the software, it is quite dangerous. By finding out the name and occupation of a person, you can create a sense of familiarity, making it more likely for people to get scammed or hurt. Check out the tech in the following video!