Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’…
It seems many if not all of today’s AR glasses use Bluetooth, which means that if you’re close enough, it should be possible to detect people who are wearing them (and/or anything else that’s using Bluetooth)
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I logged unique broadcasting Bluetooth devices for fun for a few months and I was amazed at how many hundreds if not thousands of devices it found.
And that logger was stationary. Unless you know and filter the Bluetooth address ranges of what you are looking for, you will be swamped with irrelevant data.
Side note: those Bluetooth beacons tracking people in stores are absolutely gobbling data.