Snapchat Is Making Spectacles
Hold on to your butts: Snapchat is about to get even more embarrassing!
Following in the illustrious footsteps of Google Glass (womp womp), the Wall Street Journal reveals that Snapchat is unveiling a pair of video sunglasses - named "Spectacles" - which will allow its wearer to tap a button near the hinge and record up to 10 seconds of video from a first-person vantage.
Here's the reasoning on why the glasses are better than your piece of shit smartphone:
Spectacles’ camera uses a 115-degree-angle lens, wider than a typical smartphone’s and much closer to the eyes’ natural field of view. The video it records is circular, more like human vision. ([Snapchat CEO/Miranda Kerr's boo Evan] Spiegel argues that rectangles are an unnecessary vestige of printing photos on sheets of paper.) As you record, your hands are free to pet dogs, hug babies or flail around at a concert. You can reach your arms out to people you’re filming, instead of holding your phone up, as Spiegel describes it, “like a wall in front of your face.”
Although Spiegel says the reason he created the Spectacles was just "for fun," he also admits that there could be "far-reaching implications if Snapchat can seize the means of image production."
And that doesn't mean nothing since, according to the Journal, more than 60 percent of 13-to-34-year-old smartphone users have Snapchat on their phones and we engage with the app regularly; sending more than one billion Snaps a day and watching more than 10 billion videos. Damn.
The spectacles/Spectacles will be available in black, teal, or coral this fall for $129.99 and although I'm currently hating, I will be so jealous of you when you get them.
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