IEThe Irish Times
With Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’, we really are going through the digital looking glass
Like a phone held aloft filming, the device places a layer between the wearer and the real world
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- 24 Aug 2026, 05:09 UTC
- Last checked
- 24 Aug 2026, 19:25 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
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- Byline
- Una Mullally
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Like a phone held aloft filming, the device places a layer between the wearer and the real world
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With Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’, we really are going through the digital looking glass
Like a phone held aloft filming, the device places a layer between the wearer and the real world
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Meta’s smart glasses raise some existential questions
Like a phone held aloft filming, the device places a layer between the wearer and the real world
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- #1898
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 06:39 UTC
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- 878,100 bytes, private gzip evidence
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- news-ledger/0.1
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- metadata and excerpt