Snapchat launches Spectacles: glasses to share videos – The Republic

he has tried Google Glasses, then give up. We try now Snapchat, the messaging service beloved by teenagers, with the Spectacles, the sunglasses with wireless connection and a built-in camera. It is the first hardware product on which you now bet the instant messaging service, founded in 2011 by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, become over the years a real social network. The jump goes hand in hand with the name change, is to know the company that becomes a Snap Inc. The glasses will be available in the fall at a cost of 129.99 dollars (about 115 euro) and are the culmination of a development process that lasted years, which allows Snapchat to check a camera the physical, instead of the app, a slave camera of the smartphone.

Imagine not having to take the phone in hand when you want to shoot a video, and share it immediately online. Hands-free is the most easy in on the action. May be this is the strong point of the accessory meant for the half-billion-service members average age of between 18 and 24 years, although with a tendency to grow from an age point of view, having regard to the increase of the over35 registered in the last few months.

To confirm the arrival of glasses targati Snapchat, of which the network was rumored for months, the video presentation put online on YouTube and is taken from the Business Insider. The spot shows moments of family life during the celebrations of a birthday, a party of children seen in the subjective and then shown to the grandparents. The webcam with an angle of 115° would, according to the WSJ, and make videos “circular” closer to the point of view of the human eye. So the service that has won over the youth with the chat “disposable”, the tip still on the video suggesting that the time has come to make it even easier for the time being of the share. All of that is to see if the object fashion that allows you to do this will find its way alone.

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“it is One thing to see pictures of what you have lived, and the other is to live an experience in the experience,” said Evan Spiegel, 26 years old, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, describing the first time he wore the prototype of the Spectacles, in 2015. On vacation with his girlfriend, supermodel Miranda Kerr, Spiegel explained to have experienced such an incredible feeling to see the images filmed during their hiking on Big Sur, something like a travel in time to find himself again in that place, reliving the same emotions.

Strong to overtake Twitter with over 150 million people connected to the day, Snapchat pressed again on the accelerator pedal to get to Facebook and its “armored”: other that Stories, now it is open challenge to WhatsApp and Instagram.

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