Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook, proudly presented a new gadget on Thursday. These are smart video glasses – called Ray-Ban Stories. The product is designed to record videos and photos. With the help of microphones and speakers you can also make phone calls and listen to music. The glasses are therefore not made to watch videos or to use augmented reality. It was designed together with the Italian group EssilorLuxottica, which also owns the Ray-Ban brand. It should be used when you don’t have your hands free or when you want to spontaneously capture a moment. Google sparked a storm of outrage over privacy when it launched Google Glass in 2013. The public was not very enthusiastic about the video glasses. And in 2015 the product was discontinued. To avoid this, Facebook partnered with Ray-Ban to make their model look cooler. Data protection and privacy have been improved by adding an LED light to illuminate when the glasses are recording. The Ray-Ban Stories are currently difficult to obtain for German interested parties. At launch, the new glasses will only be available in the USA, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain and Italy. The price is 299 US dollars – the equivalent of around 330 euros.
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