Do these creepy patent drawings reveal what’s next for Meta’s smart glasses? “Pervert glasses” that remember faces. Cute. - A new Meta patent shows smart glasses using facial recognition to scan a dinner party and pick out who's worth filming. - The AI reads expressions and actions, then auto-creates personalized highlight reels and searchable memories of people met. - It's just a patent, not a confirmed feature – but the illustrations are likely to unnerve privacy advocates. - Meta is already facing backlash over the glasses: facial-recognition tool NameTag was scrapped in June, and courts in UK and New York have banned the specs. Key Takeaways by nexos.ai, reviewed by Cybernews staff. Eerie drawings in a newly published Meta patent application show smart glasses scanning guests at a dinner party, recognizing their faces – and deciding who is interesting enough to film. The application, filed by Meta Platforms Technologies – the maker of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses and VR hardware – describes an AI camera system that identifies people via facial recognition, interprets their actions, and turns what it sees into personalized media and searchable memories. The latest application was filed on February 4 2026 and published on August 13. It is a continuation of earlier filings, meaning some of the underlying technology has been in Meta’s patent pipeline for years. And the patent’s illustrations show just how invasive technology could become if applied to Meta’s glasses business, which, to date, has sold around 7 million pairs. Figure 5A depicts someone wearing AR glasses at a dinner party. The system analyzes the people in the room, uses facial recognition to identify one guest as the wearer’s wife and selects her as a “point of interest.” Continuing the fun, Figure 5B shows the camera automatically zooming towards the wife, centering her