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Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera
Snap today announced Spectacles 3, a redesigned version of its augmented reality sunglasses with a sleek new design and an added HD camera to create depth perception. The glasses, which the company has positioned as a limited release, represent Snap's latest effort to build a new computing platform centered on the face. They will go on sale on Spectacles.com in November for $380.
That makes them more than twice as expensive as last year's model, which cost $150. Snap executives say the higher-end version is meant to appeal to a smaller group of "fashion-forward" creative types. It may also be designed to recoup more of its manufacturing costs for the famously money-losing product; Snapchat wrote down nearly $40 million in costs associated with the first version of the glasses after wildly overestimating demand.
The high price of Spectacles 3 will likely limit their appeal, particularly among the high school and college-age students who make up Snapchat's core user base. A Snap spokesperson said this year's model represented a necessary investment in the platform. The company has to figure out a way to do AR computing right, the logic goes, before it can do it cheaply.
Not quite VR180 given the 1216×1216 video.
Previously: Snapchat's Spectacles: A Bad Idea in Hindsight
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Snap Gives Spectacles a Face Lift to Look More Like Traditional Sunglasses
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @10:44PM
I had a situation where I was being stalked for some time. I needed to be able to quickly capture what was going on around me in public with a preference to my stalker not knowing he was being recorded. They won't convict without evidence. They won't start a case of stalking by a male without evidence. The solution was a pair of glasses with a sim card sized storage unit and a camera built into the frames right between the eyes. It worked great when it worked. Turning it on was a pain. It crashed. When it did record it really was worth it. I was able to walk around capturing video of a high enough standard to be able to use in court.
I can't see a use for this style of spyware out in the world. There's normally no need to record everything around you. Unless you live in a dangerous place where people or animals attack and authorities refuse to do anything meaningful about it or just outright deny what happens.
Yes I could pull my phone out, wake it up, unlock it, turn on the camera, and start recording. It's much easier to push a button and start capturing when some idiot is breaking the law in front of you.