Caine Ardayfio, left, and AnhPhu Nguyen, students at Harvard University who use widely available technology, including Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, to identify people on the street. After a strange encounter at a train station near Harvard Square, a man discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. — David Degner/The New York Times
On a recent Friday afternoon, Kashif Hoda was waiting for a train near Harvard Square when a young man asked him for directions. Hoda was struck by the man’s nerdy, thick-framed glasses, but he did not realise that they were Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and that a small white light indicated that they were recording.
A few minutes later, as Hoda’s train was pulling into the station, the bespectacled man, who was a junior at Harvard University named AnhPhu Nguyen, approached him again.
