Sep 26, 2016

Snapchat’s New Glasses


Snapchat will release its first wearable product this fall. It’s called Spectacles, and it’s a $130 pair of glasses that, with a tap to the side of the frame, will record 10 seconds of whatever you're seeing. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the glasses film 115-degrees wide to mimic human perception, and record a round image that creates videos outside the bounds of standard rectangular cropping.

Former Motorola executive Seshadri Tangutur is the Snapchat executive overseeing the Spectacles product, the internet company's first push into building its own hardware, according to new FCC filings.