The Spectacles, which come in three different colours (red, blue, and black), are expected to go on sale in limited quantities in the US later this year, priced at $130 (£100). Despite the extensive effort, he calls Spectacles a toy, built for people to have fun – not to be the game-changer that Google Glass was meant to be.
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The move shows Snap has moved past its social media app Snapchat – users upload short video clips that disappear after a period of time – and is looking for new ways of helping people connect.
This news comes after the company announced it was changing its name from Snapchat to Snap Inc.
The Snapchat app, which “If you don’t have it, you don’t really exist” (at least among youngsters), is raising its sights by entering the field of wearable computing.
Spectacles are similar to Google’s Glass, in that both have a camera, but Snap’s offering can do just two things: take short videos and keep the sun out of your eyes.
If you weren’t addicted enough to Snapchat already, there will soon be a new way to record and share your most memorable moments. The product will be sold in “limited distribution” this fall for $129.99, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
It is a pair of sunglasses, with a 115-degree angle lens, that with a single tap, you can record up to 10 seconds of video.
“I could see my own memory, through my own eyes-it was unbelievable”. Hence the finishing of the devices video recording capacities are much better than the kind of videos that you record through the smart phone is giving you an absolutely different experience. 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 video captured by the glasses is then wirelessly sent to the Memories section of the Snapchat app, Business Insider explains. You can double tap the side of the frames to see a battery life indicator. “It was the closest I’d ever come to feeling like I was there again”.
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Snap also told The Verge that the charging case will come with a cable that can recharge the glasses up to four times.
