They Can Know Everything About You Just by Looking at You With These Special Glasses

By combining smart glasses with facial recognition software, it's possible to learn everything about the people you meet on the street, just by looking at them. Fascinating and terrifying!

Imagine walking down the street, a stranger approaches you, and you quickly realize they know far too much about you, your name, address, where you studied, your job, and even your parents' names. You're sure you've never met them. So how could they know all this?

The answer is startling: it's their glasses. In just a few seconds of observation, he can gather a wealth of information. This unsettling scenario is part of the I-XRAY project, created by Harvard students AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio.

They used Ray-Ban and Meta smart glasses combined with facial recognition software to identify people on the street. "The information our tool collects from a simple photo of your face is mind-blowing," Nguyen said in a video on X.

Equipped with a mini camera, the glasses stream live footage to Instagram Live. The AI detects faces, uploads them to Pimeyes, a public database, and quickly compiles detailed profiles. A summary of this data appears on the wearer's smartphone via a special app.

During their tests, they successfully uncovered names, phone numbers, addresses, and even relatives' identities of numerous strangers. With this information, they approached these individuals as if they knew them.

This invention is as incredible as it is chilling. It's easy to envision the potential misuse by those with malicious intent, a concern echoed by many who reacted anxiously to their demonstration.

But hold your breath; this technology isn't available for public use. The students have no intention of releasing their tool; they created it with a noble mission: to raise awareness about the dangers of facial recognition.

Their objective is clear: to showcase the astounding capabilities of smart glasses, facial recognition systems, and public databases, all while highlighting the alarming reality that a person's address and other personal details can be extracted simply from their face on the street. As they put it in their project documentation, the demonstration is nothing short of eye opening!