Reflectacles is a one-person Chicago eyewear workshop run by Scott Urban since 2015. Its glasses and clip-ons use IR-blocking lenses and retro-reflective frames to defeat cameras that rely on infrared illumination and consumer 3D face mapping, at prices from about USD 48 to 164. The original line crowdfunded USD 41,315 in 2016, and the IRpair and Phantom follow-up raised USD 33,996 in 2019.
The mechanism is one of the narrow, verifiable claims in Adversarial clothing: Mozilla’s 2025 tests found the glasses defeated iPhone Face ID and Windows Hello, while doing nothing against visible-light person detection. A visible-light recognition pipeline that does not depend on IR is outside the product’s stated scope.
Reflectacles is the closest existing product to the “exact threat model” positioning discussed for IR eyewear in Anti-surveillance apparel market, but it ships from the United States and no EU supply chain was identified in the July 2026 scan.
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