Glasses with built-in camera from Facebook and Ray-Ban
Saturday 11 September 2021, 22:33 by Elja Trum | 4,207 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Facebook and glasses manufacturer Ray-Ban have announced glasses with a built-in camera under the name Ray-Ban Stories. The smart glasses contain two built-in 5-megapixel cameras, three microphones and speakers.
When you take a photo (or video), an LED light comes on on the glasses to make it clear that you are recording.
With this, Facebook hopes to overcome the objections people had to Google Glass.
You can take a photo by pressing a button on the glasses, but you can also give a voice command. The internal memory can store around 500 photos, but of course you can also easily download them to an app on your phone.
The glasses have a starting price of 359 euros. The glasses are also available with prescription lenses.
The glasses are not yet available in the Netherlands. They are available in the United Kingdom and Italy, for example. More countries should follow soon.
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For Facebook, this is the first step towards real Augmented Reality glasses. An interesting development. I expect many more glasses like this in the future, which can connect the digital world with the real world in a useful way.
What do you think of this development?
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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2 comments
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Donald Willemsen
wrote on Tuesday 14 September 2021 at 11:42
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I suspect you could run into problems because of privacy legislation. Hiding behind 'sunglasses' and possibly a face mask because of some pandemic doesn't seem really cool to me.
Translated from Dutch.
Photograph/film openly and not secretly. -
Mac wrote on Wednesday 15 September 2021 at 08:28 | replyAnd within a very short time you can order caps etc. with which you can shield the LED.
Translated from Dutch.
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