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GIT writes on smart glasses and the ethics of augmented reality for the ABC

Mark Zuckerberg, wearing a pair of thick-framed Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, gesturing in the direction of the camera.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, wears a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on 17 September 2025. Image and caption from ABC Religion & Ethics

Members of the GIT project team have authored an opinion piece for ABC Religion & Ethics examining the risks and implications of the newly unveiled Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

We contextualise the device and Meta’s broader bet on smart glasses against the company’s costly history of augmented and virtual reality investment. Beyond the rocky launch of the Ray-Ban Display glasses and corresponding technical issues, we further highlight the surveillance risks smart glasses pose. We argue that Meta’s smart glasses represent a step toward enclosing everyday perception within the infrastructure of a private platform.

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