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Snap will reportedly release AR-enabled Spectacles with dual cameras
Snap is reportedly set to release a new version of Spectacles with an aluminum design that packs in two cameras. Through the Snapchat app, you may be able to add augmented reality overlay effects in videos you capture with the updated Spectacles. The $350 frames will cost more than double the first version, which arrived in 2016, and will be on sale by the end of the year, according to Cheddar.
Following a $40 million write-down on the first version after Snap overestimated demand (it ordered around 800,000 pairs), it has been more conservative with orders of the device. For the second version of Spectacles, which were released earlier this year, Snap reportedly ordered 35,000 pairs, and 52,000 of a tweaked set it released in September. This time around, it's hedging its bets further by ordering around 24,000, according to the report.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @04:10PM (2 children)
You can't skip the step of the user getting their ass kicked for being a walking surveillance system, before the glasses hit the dumpster.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday November 27 2018, @04:14PM (1 child)
Violent bigot! We need spycam contact lenses because of people like you!
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 27 2018, @10:42PM
Mother's new "Eye-Phone" [youtube.com]?