A growing number of bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues across the UK are banning patrons from wearing smart glasses, like the Meta Ray-Bans, on well-justified privacy grounds. Wetherspoon is not allowing patrons into the pubs wearing the glasses. Meta glasses seem to breach this code, and common sense, by enabling surreptitious surveillance, so our instinct is to say turn off the cameras. And Apple is reportedly considering launching smart glasses without the ability to film, which would largely defy the main purpose. Could the smart glasses era be over before it has begun?