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High specs

Google Glass, the pioneering camera-equipped spectacles that were briefly available to the public more than a decade ago, has cast a long shadow. The experience of being filmed in covert fashion was not embraced by society, and while times have changed a little (the popularity of Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses has put millions of cameras on millions of faces),…