Snap launches all-new glasses with default augmented reality
Snapchat has just exhibited a lean augmented reality glasses. The latest glasses are the fourth iterations of glasses, but the first has a Augmented Reality feature that is built by the physical world. “
Glasses are equipped with two cameras, four microphones, two stereo speakers and touchpad controls. The appearance is “Dual 3D Waveguide Display” which allows users to view and interact with AR elements. Glasses are also connected directly to the Snapchat AR lens and lens studio platform.
“Glasses understand what is in their field of view and suggest relevant lenses based on what is around you,” said Spiegel. “You can then take a scene and send it to your friends to share complete images.”
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Like glasses 3, the company seems to position glasses as a tool for creators than everyday Snapchat users. Spiegel said the company had tested glasses with a group of creators and artists. But unlike other glasses, new glasses are not sold – at least not yet. Snap publishes the form on its website for glasses that allow the creators who want to use glasses to ask for a partner, but state that “new glasses are not sold.”
It wasn’t too surprising considering the new frame looked very big than the previous generation of glasses (the latest glasses weighed 134 grams, according to SNAP). And additional technology is likely that the price will be far more than expensive $ 380 glasses. It also sounds like a battery life might be a problem, because Spiegel said they could be used for “about 30 minutes at once.”
Instead, Snap seems to hope glasses will inspire the new type of AR development (and may inform the future of AR glasses). Using Studio Lens, the creator can design a new AR effect for glasses and push it directly to the frame for testing. Even so, the new glasses are the main step forward to snap, which has long said want to integrate the camera platform to hardware. We might still don’t know exactly how it will be shaped, but bringing AR to the glasses for the first time will help make it happen.