Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Meta’s Ray-Bans, Hands-On: These Glasses Now Stream to Instagram”.
Ray Bans are my natural style, so this fits my look. Meta launched its first smart glasses last year, Ray-Ban stories, which are Ray-Ban sunglasses that I built in audio features and cameras, and now there’s an update this year. There are more designs, there’s also the headliner design, in addition to Wayfarer, and there are more colors, there are transparent ones like the one I’m wearing, so you can actually see the electronics inside the new Ray-Ban stories are coming October, 17th for 300. The concept is similar in that they charge up in this nice leather case like before, but the case looks fancier and it can charge up to eight uses and they’re meant to be used for short bursts for recording up to a minute if you’re recording Clips through These or up to 30 minutes in a new feature that has live streaming to Instagram, so you can swap between your phone camera and these for review of. What’S going on, so I’m going to start switching over to my view and streaming there’s a little button on top that you double press to switching over to that view.
Here we go one two three now you’re seeing what I’m seeing this is. This is Scott vision. Yeah, I’m I’m looking around and you see I’m looking at the little coffee stand. I’M looking over here is like Avatar. You can just kind of just just just get my view, so I walk down the street yeah, do all my boring everyday life stuff or hang out with the kids. I don’t know the cat, but I could kids are like cats and I could do magic tricks.
Magic trick cam. So if you hadn’t been following what meta did last year with Ray-Ban stories, these are also voice activated, you do photos and video, I could go, hey meta, take a photo and I could hear the little and as it took a photo or hey meta, take a Video and I heard a little start so just to let me know that it’s recording there’s a pulsing light too, which maybe makes you pay more attention to it, and that happens anytime, you’re, recording video and it’s right. There, hey meta record video. So now I’m gon na try, I guess, immersive audio recording um. There are five microphones here, we’re gon na get all ASMR with this, and I’m gon na start doing Slinky, stuff and snapping, and I guess I’m gon na be able to to hear this around me later. So I don’t know I have to.
I wish my son could hear this. I can hear things floating around me. I hear John and Scott. I hear the slinky or some snapping around me, so these glasses do spatial audio if you uh the airpods or other headphones.
You may already know about spatial audio, which gives that 3D kind of sound effect around you. You just have five microphones, so they can do some spatial, audio, recording and then they’ll, either playback and spatial Audio headphones if you’ve got them or in these glasses. So what I was hearing was like little bits of something going on here, something going on there a little bit of slinkies but yeah. There was like a little bit of a little bit of spatial environment.
A lot of the design here may look similar, but it’s been improved inside it’s using a Qualcomm, Snapdragon ar1 gen1 processor touchpad is larger. The sound is a little boomier, so the controls for music are pretty straightforward. You do a tap to play or pause.
You also can do double tap and Skip forward to a different song. You can triple tap to go back and it’s pretty familiar if you have earbuds possibly and for a volume you swipe forward, and you forward swipe backwards to lower the volume that there’s a larger touch pad this time and supposed to be better responsiveness. It feels pretty responsive, so Ray-Bans are coming out around the same time as the metaquest 3 also announced at metaconnect, two different worlds: one’s a VR headset one’s audio and camera smart glasses in the future.
The idea is that some of these things might start meeting, but we’re not there. Yet these are for people who want a camera on their face that want to listen to music, on the go and in glasses and like that concept and like the idea of Ray-Bans and I’m curious about testing these more and love a review. At some point, when we wear them fully, you probably can’t hear what I’m listening to, but I can I can.
I can listen to the music salon on the street yeah .