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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Ray-Ban Stories: These are Facebook's first mass-market smart glasses [arstechnica.com]

As previously rumored [arstechnica.com], Facebook has partnered with EssilorLuxottica to produce Ray-Ban Stories [fb.com], 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 [wccftech.com].

Related: Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" [soylentnews.org]

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