On Sunday, the FBIreleased footagefrom Shamsud-Din Jabbars Meta glasses.
Jabbar drove a rented Ford F-150 into a crowd of people on New Years Day in New Orleans.
He brought IEDs, but they didnt go off.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar stares into a mirror in a rented room, testing Meta’s smartglasses which he’ll use to plot a New Year’s Day terror attack.© FBI footage via YouTube.
He died in a shootout with police.
He planned it all with a stylish pair of Ray-Bans kitted out with Meta cameras.
The Ray-Ban Wayfarer is a glasses icon.
Don Henley sang about them inThe Boys of Summer.
When Corey Hart said he wore hisSunglasses at Night, he was talking about Ray-Bans.
A pair of giant Ray-Bansmarks the spotwhere musician Buddy Holly died in Iowa.
Testing his new technologya pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasseswhich hell use to plot a terror attack.
The FBI-provided footage is almost 4 minutes long and has no sound.
Its five different clips from multiple sources, only the first two come from Jabbars glasses.
In the first, hes riding through the French Quarter on a bicycle on Halloween.
In the second clip, Jabbar stares into a mirror, the Ray-Bans capturing his sweaty face.
They also allow the user to potentially livestream through their video.
Jabbar was wearing a pair of Meta glasses when he conducted the attack on Bourbon Street.
But he did not activate the glasses to livestream his actions that day.
The FBI video also included clips from security footage in the area showing Jabbar setting up for the attack.
Hes wearing glasses in the videos.
The guns he used were purchased legally in Texas.
Other companies have attempted to market smart glasses before, but theyve been failures.
Google Glass was bulky and obviously a camera and a lot of people pushed back.
Some businesses even prohibited people who wore the ugly cameras fromentering their stores, bars, and restaurants.
Metas grand innovation in the smart glasses space is concealment.
Ray-Ban is one of the most iconic and ubiquitous sunglasses brands in the world.
Its Wayfarer is so popular that its inspired countless knockoffs.
A passing glance at a pair of Meta glasses doesnt register alarm in people.
Unless youre looking closely, theyre just glasses.
Ray-Bans are iconic and cool.
Theyre so ingrained into American culture that we dont think about them when we see them.
When Mark Zuckerberg approached the brand to host his smartglasses platform, he was borrowing the brands easy coolness.
And now anyone can be effortlessly cool while recording absolutely everything around them.
And no one will bat an eye.
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