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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: 2) by crafoo on Monday September 13 2021, @06:06AM
I thought Snapchat uses most commonly took video of themselves talking or doing something, or video of them alongside something, posing. I think they are most interested in posting video of themselves. I think a hand mirror with embedded video would serve that market better. Maybe a pocket makeup mirror?