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Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles

posted by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @08:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the cool-brother dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Tencent this week unveiled its answer to the video-recording sunglasses, which, you'll notice, bear a striking resemblance to Snap's Spectacles.

Called the Weishi smartglasses, Tencent's wearable camera sports a lens in the front corner that allows users to film from a first-person perspective. Thankfully, the Chinese gaming and social giant has not made the mistake of Snap's first-generation Spectacles, which highlighted the camera with a conspicuous yellow ring.

[...] The purpose behind Tencent's new gadget is implicit in its name. Weishi, which means "micro videos" in Chinese, is also the name of the short-video sharing app that Tencent has been aggressively promoting in recent months to catch up with market dominators TikTok and Kuaishou.

(source: TechCrunch)

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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:56AM

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:56AM (#759318)

    I always thought it'd be useful to have "lab" goggles that could record my "experiments". It'd also be useful when working on my "car".

    FTFY