Taking photos and videos, answering calls or listening to podcasts: Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban owner Luxottica.
On Thursday, Facebook presented smart glasses that can be used to take photos and videos.
With the “Ray-Ban Stories” you can also answer calls or listen to podcasts, as two loudspeakers are built into the temple arms, announced Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Unlike the failed Google Glasses, Facebook’s Ray-Ban glasses don’t have a monitor.
For the time being, the Facebook glasses are only available in Australia, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain. The project partner for the Ray-Ban Stories is the Italian Luxottica Group, to which Ray-Ban has belonged since 1999.
In the frame of the glasses there are two front-facing 5-megapixel cameras for recording videos and photos. The recordings can be synchronized with the Facebook View app on the smartphone and shared on social networks. Since the pictures can also be saved in the normal photo app of a smartphone, this works not only with the services from the Facebook group, i.e. Facebook itself, Instagram and WhatsApp, but with any network such as Twitter or Snapchat.
The glasses have a physical button on the temple to trigger the photo or video recording. But it can also be activated hands-free with a voice command (“Hey Facebook, record a video”). To protect privacy, a small white LED lights up next to the camera when the camera is taking a photo or video. “That’s more than any smartphone can do,” said Zuckerberg.
With its main function of taking photos and videos, the Ray-Ban Stories corresponds to the Snapchat glasses Spectacles, which were launched in 2016 with a lot of PR hype, but then hardly found any buyers. The speakers on both arms can play the sound from a smartphone via Bluetooth.
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