Developer creates app to detect nearby smart glasses

An independent developer created Nearby Glasses, an Android app that continuously scans for Bluetooth Low Energy advertising frames to flag nearby smart glasses from manufacturers like Meta, Luxottica (Ray-Ban), and Snap, aiming to offer a small, user-controlled countermeasure against covert recording and surveillance. The app can generate false positives (e.g., with VR headsets) and does not identify who is recording, but is positioned as a limited mitigation for sensitive contexts such as vulnerable workplaces, protests, or law-enforcement actions, as reported by 404 Media.