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Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation
After developing a facial recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.
Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation, and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. The two Ivy League drop outs, who have since moved into their own version of the Hacker Hostel in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently caused a stir after developing a facial recognition app for Meta’s smart Ray-Ban glasses to prove that the tech could be used to dox people. While still at Harvard last year, Ardayfio and Nguyen developed I-XRAY, a demo project that added facial recognition capabilities to the Meta Ray-Ban’s smart glasses, demonstrating how easily the tech could be bolted onto a device not meant to identify people.
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