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Snapchat's 10-Second-Video Glasses Are Real And Cost $130 Bucks (techcrunch.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader bheerssen writes that Snapchat "announced a new product yesterday, Spectacles, which are sunglasses with a camera built into the frame." TechCrunch reports: Snapchat's long-rumored camera glasses are actually real. The startup's first foray into hardware will be a pair of glasses called "Spectacles" and will go on sale this fall for $129.99, according to the WSJ... To start recording you tap a button on the side of the glasses. Video capture will mimic Snapchat's app, meaning you can only capture 10 seconds of video at once. This video will sync wirelessly to your phone, presumably making it available to share as a snap.
The cameras will be using a circular 115-degree lens to mimic the human eye's natural field of vision, and in the Journal's article, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel remembers his first test of the product in 2015. "I could see my own memory, through my own eyes -- it was unbelievable... It was the closest I'd ever come to feeling like I was there again." The camera glasses will enter "limited distribution" sometime within the next three months, which TechCrunch believes "could end up being like Google Glass when it first launched -- officially on sale to the public but pretty hard to come by."
The cameras will be using a circular 115-degree lens to mimic the human eye's natural field of vision, and in the Journal's article, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel remembers his first test of the product in 2015. "I could see my own memory, through my own eyes -- it was unbelievable... It was the closest I'd ever come to feeling like I was there again." The camera glasses will enter "limited distribution" sometime within the next three months, which TechCrunch believes "could end up being like Google Glass when it first launched -- officially on sale to the public but pretty hard to come by."
We all know what they will be used for. The street blowjobs guy did this 15 years ago.
I was picturing something more like Oakley's MP3 glasses, but with a super-flat little camera between your eyes. Instead it's a child's toy. They got the button on the device right (because it makes it obvious when you're recording) but they seem to have everything else wrong, including the price. That's too much for something that goofy.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"could end up being like Google Glass when it first launched -- officially on sale to the public but pretty hard to come by."
Then will fade away as people realize they don't want to wear dorky glasses with cameras on them.
Didn't we already go through this with Google Glass? People don't want to be recorded.
I personally saw Drumpf in a hotel lobby trying to drill a USB port into his snapchat glasses so he could plug in an oculus rift there.
Then will fade away as people realize they don't want to wear dorky glasses with cameras on them.
Plenty of people wanted Google Glass, but they were threatened and bullied by the Luddites, so they stayed silent.
I agree! I can't wait to get these and wear them to the beach! I get to photograph girls without them knowing and getting pissed.
Maybe sneak into the girls changing area and leave a pair. Who's gonna pay any attention to sun glasses lying around?
Create a hack to use the tech in regular RayBans for when people catch on.
This could be a boon to child porn.
P.S. Be careful when calling someone a Luddite because for one, they may see problems with technology that folks with a fetish for it will ignore or not see. Secondly, you don't know what the word Luddite means.
>> they seem to have everything else wrong
Well they did get *one* other thing right. TFS says:
using a circular 115-degree lens
Genius. I would have tried a triangle lens, or perhaps square.
This is the retarded, short-video version of Google Glass.
Google Glass users were branded as "glassholes" and fittingly so, in my humble opinion.
Also, 10 seconds seems way too short for almost any useful purpose except cranking out stupid Vine videos.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Does it come with a disclaimer that says.. "When you get punched in the face because of these glasses, and you will get punched in the face because of these glasses, you cannot hold SnapChat legally responsible because you are an asshat."
So first we had "glasshole" (asshole),
I guess now we can have "snaphat" (asshat)!
Obviously,. you could still prosecute people that distribute content that was recorded without permission of the subject, but I see no point to the outcries against people who might record for their own personal use, and in all honesty, are probably not actually *that* interested in you in the first place to notice you, specifically, among everything else they might be recording and actually *are* interested in.
The only caveat to this I would suggest is that without clear signage to the effect that states that an area is being monitored or recorded, a person doing the monitoring or recording must be physically at the location the recording is occurring... I do not think it should necessarily be externally obvious that they are recording anything, however... any more than it should be required that if a person is simply observing people as they go by should be carrying sign saying that they are watching you.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
These will allow you to covertly video anyone and anything .... for 10 seconds at a time (until someone no doubt hacks them to work longer).
One thing with social media is that people seem to post a lot more pictures of themselves (third person camera) than they post about experiences they were having (first person camera). Meaning video glasses point essentially in the wrong direction, as they show what the user sees, but not the user itself. Selfiesticks seem to be more in tune to how people actually use social media.
Either way, the 10sec restriction makes those glasses a rather limited gadget without much use outside of Snapchat.
Can they capture the full wind-up and followthrough of SnapChat glasses being slugged off someone's face?
We're all looking at the 10second limitation and thinking it sounds dumb, but if snapchat can manage to convince"the cool people" that these glasses are not threatening because of the 10second limit, on top of "trendiness" or whatever, they may succeed in not getting wearers undoubtedly punched in the face. Google Glass's problem was it was considered too nerdy, on top of threatening.
Yeah, because strapping a camera to the head of American youth could not go wrong in any way. I say 2 months after wide availability before the first lawsuit. Maybe less.
Um... didn't we learn something from the abhorrence of google glass. I'd tolerate being in the room with someone wearing these as long as I knew ti was painful for the wearer to use them and put them in visible agony when they were activated. I'm thinking something like glass shard ear pieces and a 50Kv electro shock to the brain when turned on for ten seconds.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
*perverts everywhere
And this is where the downfall begins....
Before we were born there was a fascinating industry around stereoscopy. Stereographers would travel the earth snapping 3D images of interesting sights that could be viewed back home in a simple device similar to Google Cardboard. Stereo projections of still images are fun, but moving images in stereo can be breathtaking.
This Spectacles device should have two cameras for stereo. This is a public announcement of the idea, so don't try to patent it subsequently.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Why is that guy in the photo wearing women's glasses?
You expect these to be used for professional work? Anything other than
"fun stuff"? It's from Snapchat.
Something new in gargoyle fashion, coming our way.
Too bad you pressed the button 6 seconds ago.
As far as I could tell, the main reason people were annoyed about Google Glass (besides the ostentatious bragging of wearing $1500 glasses) was that somebody wearing them could be taking your picture at any time, without obviously holding up a camera or a phone or wearing a lapel-pin camera or having a pen-sized camera in their shirt pocket or something clipped to their backpack straps or whatever else. These glasses still do that, just not as well as a cheap camera or phone.
But the display inside the glasses, which made Google Glass more useful than a camera thing, isn't in these, and it's also missing the potential Google functionality of doing face recognition and telling you the name of the person you're looking at, which you forgot. Sure, somebody wearing Google Glasses could look like they're looking at you but really be watching cat videos or talking to somebody else, but cellphone headsets had given us those a decade earlier, and now there's Pokemon Go or whatever follows it.
Also, social views of always-connected cameras are changing, as a result of Black Lives Matter and other episodes of people recording cops behaving badly and the near-ubiquity of cellphone video. Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs we need to figure out (e.g. secure recording for your pictures doesn't have to also mean that Google or Apple iCloud has access to your data.)
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