In other words, if you’re a great fan of the Snapchat and video messaging, buy the pair of spectacles!
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Snap Inc, formerly named SnapChat, is releasing the $129.99 Spectacles this Fall. The company is starting to branch out into products and services beyond the Snapchat app and therefore decided it is time to drop “chat” from the name. “That’s why we built Spectacles”.
On Friday the company announced in a Wall Street Journal article that it was changing its name to Snap Inc. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel remarked, “It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience”. The glasses will charge inside the particular case that will be used for charging the device only. Snapchat quietly acquired Vergence Labs back in December 2014 with the latter having a product which would record videos from the sunglasses with the press of a single button and could cost the users from $300-$500.
The video captured by the glasses is then wirelessly sent to the Memories section of the Snapchat app, Business Insider explains. With this device, the videos you choose to share on Snapchat will appear in a “circular video format”. Spiegel says the 115-degree-lens will record circular video, akin to how human eyes view the world, and will free one’s hands to do more interesting things will snapping.
When Snaps are being taken, an LED light ring glows to show that a video is being recorded.
Taking video without having to hold a camera or phone is what allows Spectacles to offer first-person-like video. CEO Evan Spiegel told the Wall Street Journal, “We’re going to take a slow approach to rolling them out,”. Since their only objective is to capture short videos, Snap’s Spectacles will only cost about $130.
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Spectacles, expected to be in limited supply when they hit the market, would put pressure on GoPro, whose mini-cameras are created to let people capture video of endeavours from personal perspectives.
