{"id":128473,"date":"2021-10-03T03:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T10:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/facebooks-smart-ray-ban-glasses-are-disappointingly-familiar"},"modified":"2021-10-03T03:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T10:23:49","slug":"facebooks-smart-ray-ban-glasses-are-disappointingly-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/facebooks-smart-ray-ban-glasses-are-disappointingly-familiar","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s smart Ray-Ban glasses are disappointingly familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But first, Facebook is going to have to bridge the territory of privacy \u2014 not just for those who might have photos taken of them, but for the wearers of these microphone and camera-equipped glasses. VR headsets<\/a> are one thing (and they come off your face after a session). Glasses you wear around every day are the start of Facebook\u2019s much larger ambition<\/a> to be an always-connected maker of wearables, and that\u2019s a lot harder for most people to get comfortable with.<\/p>\n

Walking down my quiet suburban street, I\u2019m looking up at the sky. Recording the sky. Around my ears, I hear ABBA\u2019s new song, I Still Have Faith In You<\/a>. It\u2019s a melancholic end to the summer. I\u2019m taking my new Ray Ban smart glasses for a walk.<\/p>\n

The Ray-Ban Stories feel like a conservative start. They lack some features that have been in similar products already. The glasses, which act as earbud-free headphones, don\u2019t have 3D spatial audio like the Bose Frames and Apple\u2019s AirPods Pro<\/a> do. The stereo cameras, on either side of the lenses, don\u2019t work with AR effects, either. Facebook has a few sort-of-AR tricks in a brand-new companion app called View that pairs with these glasses on your phone, but they\u2019re mostly ways of using depth data for a few quick social effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But first, Facebook is going to have to bridge the territory of privacy \u2014 not just for those who might have photos taken of them, but for the wearers of these microphone and camera-equipped glasses. VR headsets are one thing (and they come off your face after a session). Glasses you wear around every day [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}