[mcintyre1994]

I'm not at all surprised that Glass can be rooted and such, but I wonder about the social implications. A while ago I (incorrectly, sort of) made a post saying that you wouldn't be able to tell when Glass is recording. Somebody replied and mentioned that it would have a red light visible when it is. I didn't bother replying because, despite precedent, I had no proof that Glass would be able to be rooted etc. My point is, with Glass already rooted, is anything stopping somebody from having Glass without a red light while recording?

[akama]

It could be similar to how apple laptop camera lights work. Those light come on when the camera is recording and as far as I know it is impossible to stop them within the software. Hopefully glass does the same thing.

[saurik]

Glass does not have a light of any kind that comes on while it is recording. The closest you have is that the screen itself is visible from the front (due to how light refracts through a prism). I have heard that the older Glass units that were being demoed by Google employees did have such a light, but if that was true it was removed for the Explorer Edition units.

[mcintyre1994]

Oh. Wow, I'm quite surprised they'd remove that, seems like it would make them a bit easier for people to accept if there's a clear sign of whether they're recording. I expect not doing so is going to mean they're treated like holding your phone up, and there's quite a few places that's really not going to fly.