How to Cover / Block the LED Light of Your Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses 

Ray-ban is overstepping by forcing their standards about privacy. You made a very good point about the disparity of the real world and then there's Ray-Ban's.

There is not expectation of privacy in public.

I think 1 way clear plastic would be the best bet, since it accepts light in from outside, but not out , so both sensors would be reading the same light values.

Thanks for this reveal! Game changer. I tested other methods with covering. drawing a black circle on your finger with black ink works. Or wearing a band-aid with a black circle on the part of your finger easiest to cover. I have brown skin but that didn't work. I will get a tan and test it out :P

People claming that those glasses are an intrusion of privacy...i dont see smartphones or cameras having any blinking light while they record videos and photos in public....do you see any influencers with their selfie sticks having a light on their phones while they run around the streets?

Magical my dude

great job

Can you apply the trick and be able to broadcast live at the finish line? It only works as a storage chamber.

can u use marker just mark the center of the led leaving the surrounding sensor expose ?

Maybe one way reflective tape would work? The sensor can still see light and you won't be able to see the led since its reflective

Open it and clip one of the leads to the LED

What if you used a sewing needle to PUNCTURE the LED light? Dicey move - because if it doesn't work you ruin the glasses. What do you think?

Ever try a drop of black ink or black epoxy over the LED?

Can you not use your finger to block that sensor for the first second and not have to use electrical tape?

Is this a new model because all I did was put black tape on the little led dot that lights up and it still works so notbsure if it's new model or something but mine are about a year old.

Instead of carrying a black tape, i guess we can use phone case. As phones are always with us. Possible?

Are there not better spycam glasses out there? With no LED indicator to begin with?

Can u use your finger instead of the tape?

Hi bro , can the recorded thing turn from meta app to gallery automatically without wifi , only bleutooth?

Based on the principle you discovered, I think 'reflection' is more meaningful than 'obstruction'. A simple experiment, if you tilt a mirror at 45 degrees to block the LED, it won't trigger an alarm when taking a picture. Because the light from the LED is reflected away, and the external light is reflected into the brightness sensor. So, it's likely that placing a small 45-degree reflective mirror in front of the LED can achieve the task. Of course, the other side of the reflective mirror can be blackened.

Ehat if you started the recording and then covered the LED. Does it still work? Instead of carrying electric tape for the camera, why not cary an LED sticker for when you want to film incognito?

It is beyond stupid that they did that because if you’re in public, there’s no law that I can’t record you or have to tell you that I am recording you. Literally that light is the only reason I won’t buy those damn glasses.

While I don't like the light, it's a necessary handicap. In all those cases, they have an intended purpose. Whereas cameras like on our phones have a free range of uses and you can abuse that more easily than a body, dash, and security cam. I think people are failing to realize that it's not illegal to use the camera in public pretty much in any country without people's consent (unless stated otherwise like at a concert or private whatever), but it's designed so you can't just easily do that.

@tricks Tips fix great video , i have duct tape can i use it in stead of electrical tape ?

I had no clue that there were Meta smart glasses😂

Is there possibility to accept phone call during streaming without that streaming video interruption ? Can't find such info anywhere .....

Smile you're on candid camera.

You don't need to carry a piece of tape. You just cover it with your finger. I know that's a real stretch but it works

Try making the cover only big enough to cover the light diode inside the light sensor ring. The demos or is the ring around the light. Keep that uncovered.

Your a genius

Instead of carrying electrical tape ... just use the black cloth that came with Meta. It does the job!

Use the fleshy part of your palm or a sideways fist to cover the camera lens for the first second of video recording.

Good Idea only issue i won't be able to use meta IA when you ask it what does it see

wanted to buy to live stream my days but didn't want to stand out with a bright blinking LED, thank you!!!

Is the video quality still clear despite there being no led on whej recording?

Have any one try cover with aluminium foil. Then black tape?

Camera record time??

Will this work with stories first gen ?

This is a nice hack. It is of course easily reversible. The only use I can see for the light is if you were filming up close in the dark then perhaps the light might provide some illumination? I have read people have drilled into the led and disabled it but that is a bit risky. I have also read that if you put just a pinhole in the middle of the tape then that is enough to start recording without covering the camera lens.

Why do you mentioned you need to carry a Black Electrical Tape to cover the camera for 1seg? You can just use your finger and problem solved.

This is why we can't have nice things

I think you would need to make the blocking light tape smaller to cover just the led or carefully snip the led wire inside the device

If meta wanted to apply this stupid pro privacy politics why they did their best to miniaturize as much as possible a camera inside some glasses? It's like creating a gun and not enable you to put bullets. Ridiculous

can we just destroy the led?

They need to add the option to turn both the led and camera off. Other wise I would have bought these glasses by now but nope.

What if you just put ink on the light with a black marker?

Does it work with livestreams too?

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Any chance you can try the pinhole trick for us?

how to film when it is covered with electrical tape?

Anyone know if this still works with the current 3min video firmware update?

The one minute video length is ridiculous. Streaming for 30 minutes is better but you have to have a good internet connection the entire time.

Invasion of privacy. I have been seeing people wearing sunglasses indoors lately. They can video tape or photograph them if they go to the bathroom or locker room. I hope they get a lawsuit when it happens

These suck...On the original Rayban stories. You can cover the led with electrical tape while filming and taking pictures on god

Can't you just use your finger to cover it

Learn laws. You have no expectation of privacy in public. Baffles me regular people don’t know laws.

I feel like this is the 21st century version of having a cane with a mirror at the bottom of it.

Can you not just put your finger over it

emphasis on "IN PUBLIC" you weirdos. Use it till you can, soner or later Meta or Ray Ban will see these kind of videos and update the glasses.

2:20 u don’t press the button. Ur finger obviously doesn’t move. 2:23 u click it before u flip around. U r lame

This trick is useless with pictures Just use your thumb. Actually if you cut it smaller or make a hole inside you can bypass it or have minimum appearence

I dont think its a good idea. This is creepy be responsible let others know if you,re filming

Someone said a little bit of black nail polish

Just carry a black cloth

Ray Ban thinks the world should know what I'm doing with my camera. It lets the public know every time I switch it on. No other camera in the world does this other than stage cameras which let you know which is on so you can turn toward them. Only RayBan puts the needs of others ahead of the needs of it's owner. Ray Ban has woke optics that work against you not for you.