On top of low prices, you will receive world class customer service and super fast shipping. They were a fun gadget, but I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable wearing them every day in public. I wore them to walk my son to school and pulled them up onto my head when I got near the school so that no one would notice that my glasses have cameras. The ray ban new wayfarer second thing to make clear is that these glasses do NOT stream to Facebook or post directly to your Facebook or Instagram. They take photos and short videos and send those to a special app on your phone that connects to the glasses over Bluetooth. They are also available in three frame styles, as well as different colors, including clear.
And that’s including its dual 5-megapixel cameras, Snapdragon processor, touchpad, speakers, three-microphone array and other hardware. I’ll be honest, I was a bit shocked when I learned how much they weighed. We’re used to smart glasses being thick and heavy, even when they’re coming from major brands like Bose. With their core ability of taking photos and videos, Ray-Ban Stories are essentially a sleeker version of Snapchat’s Spectacles, which first debuted in 2016 to a lot of hype that quickly fizzled. These Ray-Bans don’t have displays in the lenses, like the latest Spectacles that were unveiled earlier this year. However, speakers on both sides of the frame can play sound from your phone over Bluetooth, allowing you to take a call or listen to a podcast without pulling your phone out.
But that is something that might be in the works should these smart glasses take off. Ray-Ban and Facebook Smart eyeglasses are hardly a new concept. I was at a fashion show and the designer Diane von Furstenberg took her runway finale bow sporting futuristic frames with a clunky camera on the side. These Google glasses never really took off in part because they were not chic nor can you seamlessly integrate them into your wardrobe. Imagine wearing a Chanel ensemble or a Savile Row suit with robotic looking glasses. The shape of the frames are too forward to suit a wider audience.
And at the moment, they’re not much more than that, even if Facebook promises to go much further in future products. Facebook notes that the glasses don’t do anything you can’t do with your smartphone clubmaster and points to the ways the products let bystanders know they’re different. The use of this website means that you accept the confidentiality regulations and the conditions of service.
But in the city surrounded by people, I confess I might stick to tapping the side of my frames to take photos. But instead of reaching into my pocket for my iPhone, I tapped the side of my Ray-Ban sunglasses until I heard the click of a shutter. Later, I downloaded the photos that my sunglasses had just taken to my phone.
You can favorite clips and do minor touch-ups before sending footage to any app of your choice. During initial setup, it walks you through the privacy policy that asks to let Facebook collect data about how you use the glasses. A Facebook account is required to use them, but the company isn’t analyzing what you record and save in the View app to personalize ads to you. The cameras in the glasses are nowhere as high quality as the cameras on modern smartphones. Instead, Ray-Ban Stories are meant to be used in moments when your hands are occupied, or you want to capture something fleeting.