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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.
Related: Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles"
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday September 11 2021, @05:13PM
You don't have augmented reality without some kind of sensor, usually a front-facing camera (preferably two). Remove the "obnoxious" part and you also don't have AR, unless the device uses infrared, LIDAR, etc. for niche uses.
This product and Snap(chat)'s Spectacles are for recording short videos and taking photos hands-free. Something the target demographics are already doing all the time, all over the place, except with smartphones. Since there are two front-facing cameras, presumably it should be able to record VR180 content from the user's eye level.
Also, looking at the press release [fb.com], it has speakers, so you can take calls with it.
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