This developer created an app to detect nearby Meta glasses. It already has thousands of users.0

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• September 10, 2026

Pawel Szydlowski was spooked after he saw videos of people using smart glasses to record and identify unsuspecting strangers. So the 30-year-old Polish software developer created an app that he says can detect nearby smart glasses and estimate their distance. “There’s a need for such an application,” he told Business Insider. The app, which Szydlowski