While y’all might be pointing out the 26-year-old has just invented, uh, Google Glass, his demo to The Wall Street Journal reveals Spectacles are more akin to a Karen Walker x Casey Neistat collab than Google’s ill-fated cyperpunk speed dealers.
WSJ reports the unisex sunnies have tiny, inbuilt cameras near the hinges. Users can tap the side of the frame to record exactly ten seconds of video, leaving wearers free to point at, poke, or flip both birds at whatever they feel like.
Spectacles’ price-point is another differentiating factor: Spiegel reckons they’ll come in at about AU $170, and he’s branded them as a “toy”, rather than the more fully-optioned tech offered by Google.
Although they’re definitely in that fun-above-all-else niche Snapchat has burrowed into, Spiegel still big-upped their wide-angle lenses, describing how footage from a prototype version provided an almost-real feel.
“It was our first vacation, and we went to Big Sur for a day or two. We were walking through the woods, stepping over logs, looking up at the beautiful trees. And when I got the footage back and watched it, I could see my own memory, through my own eyes—it was unbelievable.It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience. It was the closest I’d ever come to feeling like I was there again.”
