Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | I'm a Creep | 2
Business Wars
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4.6 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It’s 2023, and Meta Ray-Bans have just helped Mark Zuckerberg turn a corner. After his disastrous investment in the Metaverse, Meta’s AI-enabled smart glasses are a welcome victory for the company. But the competition is coming. And so are uncomfortable questions about mandatory data-sharing, worker exploitation, and federal agents using the glasses illegally. If smart glasses are here to stay, the question becomes… is that a good thing?
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of business wars ad-free right now. |
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| 0:22.8 | It's June 2025. |
| 0:28.1 | In a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles's Cyprus Park neighborhood, |
| 0:30.5 | an immigration raid is underway. |
| 0:35.8 | Agents in dark sunglasses and bulletproof vests hop out of their cars, |
| 0:38.7 | shouting orders as they look for people to apprehend. |
| 0:41.6 | This site has become common around L.A. |
| 0:43.5 | The Department of Homeland Security has sent swarms of federal agents into the city, |
| 0:46.6 | some from Customs and Border Patrol or CBP, |
| 0:49.9 | others from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement or ICE. |
| 0:56.9 | In less than a month, around 2,000 local immigrants have been rounded up. It's a time of fear and uncertainty, made worse by the agent's |
| 1:03.2 | anonymity. Many of the names and badge numbers aren't always visible, and their faces are often |
| 1:09.2 | hidden behind baseball caps, hoods, and masks. |
| 1:12.9 | It's nearly impossible to know who the agents are. |
| 1:16.6 | In this Home Depot parking lot, a crowd of observers has started together, recording everything |
| 1:21.8 | they can to document what is happening. |
| 1:24.9 | As the Border Patrol agents try to push them back, they keep recording, |
| 1:30.1 | and that's when they notice something surprising about the sunglasses worn by one of the agents. |
| 1:36.7 | They're meta-ray bands. In the middle of an immigration raid, someone from Border Patrol |
| 1:42.4 | is wearing a personal recording device. |
| 1:46.0 | Observers wonder, is he recording right now? Will the glasses be used to identify protesters at the |
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