People just drill out the LED and cover the hole with epoxy and can record with no light just fine. There was just a video on the Good Work YT channel where a journalist paid some dude in a Garage in New Jersey $100 and he did it in 10 minutes.

Why would you pay like $300 or whatever for the glasses, $100 more for this mod, instead of doing what I said and buying a device designed for the job?

You didn't actually disagree with anything I said, so I'm wondering what your point is.

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I've owned several pairs of bone conduction headphones, both Alibaba white label stuff and the big brand name. All of them:

• Don't block the ears
• Play navigation directions
• Have a button to answer phone calls
• Have a mic for talking on the phone
• Have a way to trigger a phone's voice assistant feature

They are essentially the "audio only version" of Meta glasses you're requesting. My current Shokz OpenMove was a big upgrade in Bluetooth range and connection stability from any of the white label stuff, though some of those sounded about as good.

When I can, I try to get around on foot. Having some sort of HUD to display directions and such would be pretty nice for that instead of constantly having to pull out my phone.

Even more true for biking directions. I bought a new old stock Google Glass for $50 and vibecoded OSMGlass for exactly that purpose. It's adequate.

It's weird to me that it took Meta releasing these for it to become a problem. Here's a review of some $130 spy camera glasses from 2013. Since then prices have decreased and capability has increased. There are a ton of "spy camera glasses" on Amazon.

I agree. Shame, along with Elvis, has left the building.

I'm not sure about that. I have aphantasia, so no visual memories. My problem is with past events, they often feel like they're disconnected from me. I don't have a first person sense of my childhood for example. I can remember what happened, but I don't so much remember it happening.

Photography for me is a way of anchoring myself to the event. When I look at a photo of something, it takes me back there in a way my memory can't.

Losers