Why would anyone want one of these?
They look terrible.
Besides, a camera, or phone held so that you are looking at the screen or through a viewfinder will be from "a human perspective" so again, why?
Only purpose is making you look like a Tw_t
Memory monetisation has arrived in the UK today with the launch of Snap Spectacles. Snap is best known for enabling millennials to send silly self-deleting pics, but since its IPO it has been keen to reinvent itself as a camera company. The product was first announced in September and has been available in the US for several …
I hardly ever take a photograph of anything as I'm not "wired" for visual. When I do, on my Sony Cybershot, I compose the photo using it's screen. I've been told my photos have high composition, whatever the frag that is. Trying to do the same thing with a pair of camera mounted glasses is well nigh on impossible to me. So I'll take a pass on this.
What sucks is this isn't even an advertising business model anymore. It's an investor scam based on the promise that super effective (intrusive) advertising will work in the future.
Stupid tech bubble destroying people's privacy for nothing. Please hurry up and collapse.
You could go to the product web site (https://www.spectacles.com/), but you only have yourself to blame if you do.
Excellent website. I just looked at it from Belgium and it immediately breaks the language laws here by only offering French, and being the annoying sort I want Flemish - and there isn't an option for someone who doesn't read French to change it (there is one in French, but I did mention I'm the annoying sort - it's more fun to shop them to the authorities for it, because they're worth it :) ).
@AC
"... I just looked at it from Belgium and it immediately breaks the language laws here by only offering French, and being the annoying sort I want Flemish ..."
As someone who is married to a Belgian from the Antwerp area I felt you deserved an up vote for this!
EDIT - Actually they do have a Flemish site - https://www.spectacles.com/be-nl/ = it's the first one in the list when you select the country you live in to change sites. Oh well - I'll have to hate them for another reason such as they look bloody awful.
Teal and Coral aren't real colours.
I'll accept black. But people in marketing have been getting away with making up new colours for years now. I'm not sure I can cope with more than about ten. Say the colours of felt tip pen I had as a kid, plus black and white...
I presume they've forgotten about the people who already wear glasses.
Telling "glasses will come in Pantone 17-4919 TCX color" won't exactly help customers <G>. Nor if you try with RGB or L*A*B values....
Fashion has been inventing colors for a long, long time. I remember an Italian Donald Duck tale "La Casacca Cosacca" (the "Cossack Coat" - 1963) where Donald Duck is deceived into buying a coat, the color of which is "marsh green at sunset yet not entirely evening" - a clear mock of some fashion-named colors.
"And will they make the shutter click sound that is legally required in places like France? I sense an incoming ECJ sueball..."
Hmm, that is required for photo cameras. However if you are recording video, what is the legal requirement? If any?
I know that phones in franch make the clicky sound when a photo is taken, but videos seem to be silent. My old Nokia had a nice feature that if you were recording a video, a red LED would light up above the camera, so people knew when you were recording.
No modern phones have that (afaik) and they haven't been sued to oblivion, so I suspect it will be ok if the specs record constant video (and allow you to share "freeze-frames" from the video as snapshots).
Anyone filming me and putting the video online without my consent can expect having to discuss with a Judge in court about it.
If you were in a public place at the time you have no comeback, since anyone could have watched you there & then.
Filming in a non-public place would be different, of course.
If you were in a public place at the time you have no comeback, since anyone could have watched you there & then.
No, it does not work that way where I live. Even if filmed in public, I still own my public image and the right to control how it is used.
Even if filmed in public, I still own my public image and the right to control how it is used.
Nice one. I'm moving :). That said, I think there's something similar in Switzerland, I have a vague memory of that being the reason why it's technically illegal to run a dashcam (or maybe you need to register the device or something, it's been a while I came across that).
If you were in a public place at the time you have no comeback, since anyone could have watched you there & then.
Unless you're a police officer. Filming them on the job is becoming more and more illegal. Or if you're an airline employee, or working at a slaughter house, etc... Plenty of places/occupations outside the home where you can't be filmed.
But agreed, if you're an average joe in America, F-You buddy!
Because there won't be idiots wearing them all the time. It is intended to wear during just those occasions you want to record, while Google was talking up Glass as something you'd use constantly - talking up future uses like wearing it when driving to give directions, or wearing while shopping to show price comparison.
The purpose of Spectacles is recording ONLY, and Snap videos are very short, so you probably won't see someone at a bar wearing them all night long asking to be punched.