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Ray-Ban Stories: These are Facebook's first mass-market smart glasses
As previously rumored, Facebook has partnered with EssilorLuxottica to produce Ray-Ban Stories, one of the first potentially viable attempts at mass-market smart glasses. They are similar in some ways to early iterations of Snapchat Spectacles but with a more stylish aesthetic that looks right in line with other Ray-Ban glasses.
The glasses have two front-facing cameras, each at 5 megapixels. Users can take a photo either with a touch gesture or with a "Hey Facebook" voice command. So people in the room can tell that pictures or video are being taken, a white LED on the front of the frames will light up. Videos can be as long as 30 seconds.
[...] The Ray-Ban Stories are equipped with a Snapdragon processor, but they don't have displays in the lenses. So these are by no means augmented reality (AR) glasses.
Also at Wccftech.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:44PM (3 children)
Without a selfie camera, who's the target market? People taking pictures of their food without posing next to it? iow: Nobody?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:50PM (1 child)
You use your pocket mirror.
(Score: 4, Touché) by istartedi on Friday September 10 2021, @11:36PM
"Where do I get the pocket mirror app?" --Somebody Forsure.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @04:03AM
Without an input device, they are just toys. Something like the Tap Wrist which was recently announced (not yet publically) would work nicely to turn AR glasses into usable displays for mobile computing.