Snapchat Announces 'Spectacles,' $130 Sunglasses That Record 10 Seconds of Video at a Time

[SteveJobzniak]

That is it. I am leaving this planet. You had a good try, humans...

 

[imola.zhp]

Cute guy, ugly glasses.

 

[michelepri]

ahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahaha :9 ahahahahahahaahahahahahaha come on
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The result of a child becoming a billionaire CEO.

+1

 

[bdkennedy1]

Not even for $30.

 

[Brandhouse]

With Miranda Kerr as my girlfriend, I'd be recording every life moment with these glasses.

 

[Arran]

With Miranda Kerr as my girlfriend, I'd be recording every life moment with these glasses.

Just think. You'd be able to endlessly replay the moment she breaks up with you because she's tired of hanging with a nerdy-spec-wearing guy who's more interested in recording his awesome life than living it.

A somewhat brutal manifestation of the observer effect.

 

[McCool71]

Reminds me of how everyone thought Google Glass was going to succeed.

It is an amazing piece of technology though - I was lucky enough to try them out a couple of years ago. Probably way too early to reach the mass market. I would love to have a set today if there had been more app development for them.

The Snap Spectacles are just a cheap plastic toy compared to the now (3 or 4 year?) old Google Glass though.

 

[iMi]

I don't understand this obsession with recording everything on video. How many people go back and actually watch the mundane s*** they recorded while looking around through their glasses?

 

[precogincog]

Reminds me of how everyone thought Google Glass was going to succeed.

I still they they could have succeeded if they didn't become a "fashion" thing instead of a function thing (because why else would you wear glasses). Like those toe shoes.

 

[Taustin Powers]

Circular video format is the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time. EVERY SCREEN you can watch these videos on will be rectangular.

Just trying way too hard to "be different", "break with conventions", and "change things up", just for the sake of it. Really lame and forced.

 

[superman23]

it's so people who view those Snaps know that you were using Spectacles. The foundation of Snapchat is transparency and this fits in here too. It's like a piece of fashion that puts an image filter into physical form. it's a pet project not the future of the company.

you have no idea how many times per day young girls are snap chatting. one of them will get the glasses, there will be lots of up close pics of her friends boobs, we'll watch, we'll view ads.

 

[kgtenacious]

I'm sure some guy wearing these will get just as warm a reception at parties and bars as people wearing Google Glasses did...

 

[babaroga73]

Also, it's common mistake made by Google and now Snapchat , to think if they like surveillance and spying on people , that everybody will like it , too!

 

[D-Dave]

There's a privacy concern that is gradually fading away as the generation that Spectacles was built for have grown up expecting cameras everywhere and not only not caring that they're being filmed but craving it. Older folks will hate it but the world will no longer be built for them.

Problem is, as with google glass, it does not film the idiot wearing this thing but everyone else...VERY bad idea especially as this is meant to be share all that stuff...lawsuits will pretty much outpace the salesnumbers.
Don't forget, it's usualy those pesky "older folks" that make the laws and enforce them in court...

 

[kattskrall]

While this is intended for the Snapchat generation, I can't help but imagine a more mainstream application for something like this.

Google Glass was too early for its time but its time may be coming. A pair of glasses that records everything that you see while wearing them is something that could exist in an era of unlimited storage which cloud computing will inevitably lead to. Artificial intelligence able to recognize and index objects, moments and people would make it possible to search our lives for memories. "Show me that time when I first noticed my wife walking out of Macy's".

There's a privacy concern that is gradually fading away as the generation that Spectacles was built for have grown up expecting cameras everywhere and not only not caring that they're being filmed but craving it. Older folks will hate it but the world will no longer be built for them.

Just lol. Do you believe that virtual reality will succeed too? And artificial intelligence? Please.

And this this "People will crave being filmed" now you're scaring me dude. I hope that you won't end up in a position of power anywhere.

Seeing a comment like this getting upvoted is making me baffled how gullible people really are.

 

[malexandria]

well, they don't make you like douchier than Google Glass did.

 

[lsl2991]

Those are hideous.
No one will want them.
No creativity.

*preorders 13 pairs*

 

[deckard666]

Those are hideous.
No one will want them.
No creativity.

*preorders 13 pairs*

Same basic issue as GoogleGlass as generally no-one likes wearing glasses. End of.

 

[lamerica80]

I don't understand this obsession with recording everything on video. How many people go back and actually watch the mundane s*** they recorded while looking around through their glasses?

Dont knock it. If there is one thing i regret is not shooting more video 10-15 years ago instead of just taking zillions of pictures. Even a low-res 2 minute snippet of video is enough to "take you back" whereas pictures are just...pictures. And oddly its the mundane stuff thats the good stuff.

 

[deeddawg]

BCGs!!!

(Birth Control Glasses)

 

[DesterWallaboo]

.... and will be banned on pretty much every property.

 

[PJL500]

is this the last gasp of framed spectacles?

 

[winston1236]

Interesting given how everyone else is running away from hardware and wants to be a service company.

On a side note, until these tech companies get a better understanding of fashion these "glasses" ideas will always fail.

 

[lostngone]

Camera shake X 10

Actually the head is one of the best places on the body to reduce camera shake.

 

[elgrecomac]

Like G glass, people hated the invasion of privacy potential. At the beach, at the mall, etc....and for all the inappropriate and general creepiness of ' upskirting' photos, this is just as bad. A freaks dream and a decent person's worst nightmare. And ...I gotta tel ya, the weird expression on that CEO's face says it all....creepy guy....