[Oakley Meta Vanguard AI Glasses] Add local media capture and standalone privacy modes

If you’re thinking about buying the Oakley Meta Vanguard AI Glasses garbage (men’s or women’s) well don’t. You’re just throwing away your £500 / $676.45. Here’s why. You cannot use these glasses at all unless you: -Install Meta’s app on your phone -Grant it access to your photos, files, and storage -Allow telemetry and other system-level permissions -Route all functionality (photos, videos, audio, AI queries) through Meta’s servers There is zero option to simply pair via Bluetooth and capture media locally. No standalone mode. No privacy mode. Nothing. The result is that the entire device feels like you are putting a camera and microphone on your face that reports back to Mark Zuckerberg's ecosystem 24/7. Whether intentional or not, the design practically funnels everything you see, say, or capture into Meta’s systems. And this is where it becomes a deal-breaker for me: I personally am not comfortable with a product where all my audio, video, and usage data is handled by a company already known for massive data collection. In my opinion, when a device is this tightly locked to Meta’s cloud, it opens the door, whether now or in the future, for exactly the kind of access that government agencies like the CIA or FBI could request or obtain through legal channels. On top of that, it’s impossible for me not to think about companies like Palantir, whose entire business revolves around analyzing huge streams of data. When a wearable device must pipe everything to Meta’s servers, it raises the concern (again, my opinion) that this becomes yet another endpoint feeding the broader surveillance and analytics ecosystem. Whether or not that’s happening today, the architecture definitely makes it possible, and that alone is enough for me to pass. Meta could have easily avoided all these concerns by allowing: -Direct Bluetooth photo/video capture -Local-only recording mode -An offline mode without full data permissions -The ability to use the glasses without funneling everything through Zuckerberg’s app But right now, these glasses feel less like a product I own and more like a node in a giant data-collection network. I returned them immediately. Unless you’re comfortable with the level of access Meta requires , and the potential implications of that , I would not recommend these at all. Don’t fall for tech giants’ hype about their products. A lot of it is just marketing noise, not real value. And there you have it, saved you 676.45 bucks.🎤 AI Glasses vs Social Media: Understanding the Privacy and Data Collection Mechanisms 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGRPQ3fq #metaglasses #ai #gadget #wearabletech #aigarbage #smartglasses #NotSoSmartGlasses #techtoy #artificialintelligence #artificialintelligence