The multiyear partnership with EssilorLuxottica that Facebook has announced, which starts with these more basic glasses, clearly strives towards far more advanced stuff. Blending of virtual and real with embedded displays, spatial audio. Facebook’s bound to keep blurring the lines between privacy and your data as the hardware gets more complex, and so are other manufacturers of AR devices. A shutter button is on one arm, right above a touchpad that controls volume and can be tapped to answer calls and play/pause.
These are meant to be used with a phone nearby, but they could be stand-alone camera-glasses for a few hours, too. The glasses recharge using the included case, using a clever magnetic contact hidden in one of the glasses’ arm hinges. While the glasses themselves provide only a couple hours of battery life, the included charging case provides roughly a day of use, Facebook says. In addition to coming in several styles and colors, they can be made as sunglasses or untinted lenses, prescription and even progressive lenses.
The process was instant, simple, unobtrusive — and it was powered by Facebook, which has teamed up with Ray-Ban. Their new line of eyewear, called Ray-Ban Stories and unveiled on Thursday, can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play music and podcasts. The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls clubmaster and play podcasts. Himel described how he likes to use them to capture moments of his young children. Any parent knows that little kids stop doing the cute thing they were just doing as soon as you pull out your phone and start filming. And there is no limit to the number of photos and videos parents want to take of their own kids, even just boring things, never to be shared.
Even though this is a product collaboration between two globally recognizable brands, these are Facebook glasses. A white LED light built into the front corner of the frames pops on to alert people when you’re recording (also, there’s a shutter-snap sound when taking clubmaster photos), but these alerts are pretty subtle. In fact, my kids standing next to me in bright daylight didn’t really notice it. That, combined with the unexpectedly subtle darkened camera lenses on the glasses, make these a lot more stealthy than I was expecting.
Facebook has long been under scrutiny for how it treats people’s personal data. Using the glasses to surreptitiously film people is bound to cause concerns, not to mention what Facebook might do with the videos that people collect. Facebook’s latest foray into “Wait, haven’t I seen this before? ” is a pair of photo- and video-capturing sunglasses, à la Snap Spectacles. They’re called Ray-Ban Stories, with Ray-Ban appearing first and Facebook second in most of the product branding.
In 1929, the US Army commissioned Bausch & Lomb, which at the time was a medical equipment manufacturer, to create an aviation-style of sunglasses for the military. They wanted a specific design that would reduce blue and white hues in the sky for their pilots. The iconic browline on the upper frame naturally makes a strong first impression. You’ll be able to find these in a variety of color combinations and sizes to suit most face shapes and complexions. One added bonus was that no one could hear me say “Hey, Facebook” while I was alone on the trails.
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