Name: Snap Spectacles 3 review: here we go again
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T03:30:45.000Z
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- It's been three years since the first version

Last year, a second version kind of came and went.

and much pricier take on wearable computing.

These things cost three hundred and eighty dollars,

up from a hundred and fifty dollars for Spectacles 2.

for a more fashion forward and creative audience,

black and a kind of tan that Snap calls mineral.

I find that the steel frame isn't super comfortable,

There's something that would just kind of

it might just be a little too fashion forward,

There's something about this giant steel bar

that feels a little bit insect like or maybe even alien.

Now let's talk abut the tech in Spectacles 3.

The big marquee feature this year is a second camera,

is that Spectacles can sense depth for the first time.

So Spectacles now have a bunch of filters

that kind of integrate the real world with Snap's.

For example, there's one filter that puts hearts everywhere

those hearts will kind of bounce off you.

There's another flower filter that projects flowers

onto the ground and the shape kind of changes

When I talked with Snap's CEO, Evan Spiegel,

he told me he saw them as a breakthrough for the company

because it's the first time that Snap has been able

to integrate computing with the real world.

I can't put on my Spectacles and just see Snap filters

import Snaps from my glasses to the phone,

So there are gonna be about 10 of these filters

available at launch that are exclusive to Spectacles 3,

like the dancing hot dog or the gender swap.

But Snap is gonna let independent developers

build their own filters that incorporate depth perception,

and it'll be interesting to see what they come up with.

In the meantime, though, it feels mostly like a novelty.

Spectacles 3 can use the second camera in another way,

and it's by taking what Snap calls 3D photos.

you press and hold one of these camera buttons

and it will capture a sort of three-dimensional image

Once you've done that, you can build this cardboard viewer

slide a phone in and then kind of click through

It's a somewhat novel way of looking through images,

I think Spectacles 3 are a meaningful iteration

of a product that is only going to get better over time.

At the same time, they're definitely a product

I asked Evan Spiegel that, and he was up front with me.

He said that he thinks that these kind of AR glasses

aren't gonna hit mainstream adoption for 10 years.

He says there are just too many constraints

But Snap thinks it's important to iterate in public.

Every time it releases another generation of Spectacles,

it's able to learn from its community, get feedback,

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