I tried to find videos on these Reflectacles but only came across this one, I’ve been wanting a pair but do you guys think their worth it for the 64-164 dollar price tag. How much will they actually help.

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    3 years ago

    If camera quality is good enough you even see reflections in your eyes without any glasses. Such things are cash-gabs to fool people buying some crap under the name of privacy. Nothing to see here.

    You are not CIA and you do not need it, you are absolute no target. If you film or stream yourself and have a fear that someone finds out what weeb stuff is on your monitor, it would be better stop filming yourself or just create another virtual desktop for such purposes to minimize risk of exposure.

    If you walk into a bank when its dark outside and you wear such fake glasses everyone will suspect you even more and maybe even ask you why you wear it because they look so cheap that everyone instantly knows you are up to something.

    You do nothing here to protect your privacy with such things.

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    3 years ago

    Isn’t it supposed to block IR or something to block facial recognition? Because just making them reflecting light will just make you more “fashion” imo

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      3 years ago

      i guess according to their website, they are supposed to block ir with the actual lenses then have an visible and ir reflective tint from 10-15 feet away as shown here

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        3 years ago

        that’s actually really cool i took the video and tried to change the saturation, brightness and etc in darktable and it still didn’t clear up his face. i’m considering picking up a pair of their phantom frames

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    3 years ago

    These glasses will draw 100x more attention to you than if you didn’t wear them or you just wore normal eyeglasses.

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      3 years ago

      I think these glasses would be more for unwanted photos in clubs but their website seems to have more ‘normal’ looking glasses