What are invisibility glasses?
Developed by AVG Innovation Labs, the glasses help protect your visual identity in the digital age.
Through a mixture of technology and specialist materials, privacy wearables such as invisibility glasses can make it difficult for cameras or other facial recognition technologies to get a clear view of your identity.
...there are generally two different methods of combating unwanted facial recognition:
Infrared Light
The idea is to place infrared LEDs inserted around the eyes and the nose areas. Since the infrared lights are completely invisible to human eyes, they are only detectable by cameras which are sensitive to the wavelengths of these LEDs. They claim to break face detection when the lights are on.
In this example we show how infrared can be used to avoid Facebook’s facial recognition technology.
Retro-reflective MaterialsThese specialist materials help maintain your privacy at the moment that the image is actually taken.
PS - This is a proof-of-concept project. Not for sale. However, you can make your own.
Note: Many cell phone cameras have infrared cutoff filters built into their lenses... and you can bet law enforcement facial recognition systems do too.
