Nobody in the frame volunteered
A technician issued a pair of glasses by their employer did not shop for them. They did not read a comparison, weigh the camera against the price, or decide the trade was worth it. The device arrived with the shift.
That matters because the whole consumer framing of this problem rests on a wearer who chose. Remove the choice and the wearer stops being the party responsible for what the device does, while remaining the only visible party in the room. The person standing opposite them is a colleague, a patient, a customer at a counter, or a warehouse worker two aisles over, and none of those people can step outside for the duration.
Consent does not survive a reporting line
A bystander in public has one weak remedy, which is to leave. A bystander at work does not have it. Asking a colleague to stop recording carries a cost that scales with how much power the wearer's department has over yours, and asking your employer to stop is a grievance rather than a request.
Trade coverage of the category tracks platforms and readiness, and it does that well. XR Today has written about what is arriving in Android XR through 2026, and the buying conversation is genuinely moving from curiosity to rollout. The gap sits one layer down. Deployment guides describe how to manage devices as endpoints. They rarely describe what happens to the people the endpoints are pointed at all day.
This belongs in procurement, not in a poster
A sign at reception announcing that recording may occur is what a venue does. An employer is not a venue. Where the room is somebody's workplace, notice has to be answered before purchase, in the questions a buyer asks a vendor. Where does footage go, how long does it live, who reviews it, and what specifically happens when a worker objects.
We would make that last question the hard one, because it is the one nobody has a good answer to. Every deployment we have read about has a retention policy and none of them say what an objection accomplishes. A policy that describes how data is handled but not how a person can push back is a policy written for the auditor rather than the workforce.