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Facebook Announces "Ray-Ban Stories" Smart Glasses

posted by martyb on Friday September 10 2021, @09:32PM   
from the glass-holes-part-due dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Related: Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles"

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• Seems like I'll have to dust of the phrase Seems like I'll have to dust of the phrase (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:45PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:45PM (#1176803)

  "hey glasshole, get out" again

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• Re:Seems like I'll have to dust of the phrase (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @09:49PM (#1176805)

  NO, it's different this time! This is Facebook, the company that ruined the Oculus, not Google, the company that ruined itself.

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