Following reports of students wearing Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses, the Upper School administration banned digital glasses in their first addition to Latin’s phone policy, announced last Thursday.

Devices like Meta’s replicate many of the core functions of smartphones: Users can take pictures, play music, send and receive text messages, search the web, and talk to AI. Now, if they are seen in school from 8 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., they will be confiscated just like a cell phone.

Senior Grayson Anderson, an avid user of Ray-Ban Meta, was among those affected by the change.

“I was a little upset, but not crazy upset. I use them a lot, but most of the time outside of school,” Grayson said. “I don’t think the school understood what the glasses’ main purpose was for. If my phone is in my bag or locker, it is simply just a device to play music.”

Although some students used the glasses only as headphones, 9th and 10th grade Dean of Students Lenny Goldman cited academic integrity and privacy concerns as the primary reasons behind the ban.

“When this one came across our desks, it seemed like—for similar rationale as the cell phone ban—a natural follow-up,” Mr. Goldman said. “It’s really important to keep [the Upper School] a space where people feel like they can be their full selves, take risks, and not have the fear of being recorded.”

As digital glasses join phones on the list of Latin’s restricted devices, students are left wondering what device—if any—will be next on the chopping block.