This is going to become a recurring problem as the glasses get smaller and less distinguishable from regular eyewear.

Ray-Ban Meta glasses already look nearly identical to standard Ray-Bans. Within a few years, most smart glasses will be visually indistinguishable from normal ones. Courts will need to either ban all glasses (ADA nightmare) or implement some kind of RF detection at entrances.

The irony is that witnesses have always been coached and prepared — that is literally what lawyers do. The difference is the real-time aspect. Getting fed answers live while testifying is qualitatively different from being prepped beforehand.

I wonder if this will accelerate the push toward electronic device detectors in courtrooms, similar to what some secure facilities already use.

This sort of thing does make me worry that society as a whole will get paranoid of people that wear glasses out of suspicion that they might be smart glasses that are secretly recording them or such. A court room can probably have something set up to check them, but I mean more just out in the world