Ray-Ban Stories
Ray-Ban Stories are a wearable computer, with the facility to record audio and video, mounted in a pair of glasses.[1][2] The product is a collaboration between Ray-Ban, a manufacturer of sunglasses, and facebook.
The glasses can also play podcasts, and streaming audio, for the wearer.[2]
They have been compared to Google Glass, a similar product introduced with great fanfare, by Google, only to be the target of ridicule.[1][2] In contrast to Google Glass, which came equipped with a small but very densely packed visual display, the first version of Ray-Ban Stories interacts with the wearer only through audio feedback. However, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also spoke of plans to introduce more featureful versions, which would "augment reality".
The glasses have triggered privacy concerns.[1][2] Facebook's app setup reminds wearers to respect the privacy of those around them, but the product's built-in assistant is designed to silently forward to forward audio and video to headquarters. While facebook has a long history of disrespecting their user's privacy, and selling data acquired about their users to marketers, they promised that, this time, the monitoring is solely for product improvement.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Queenie Wong (2021-09-09). "'Hey Facebook, take a photo': The social network's smart glasses are here". CNET. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/hey-facebook-take-a-photo-the-social-networks-smart-glasses-are-here/. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mike Isaac (2021-09-09). "Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb. Now Facebook Is Giving Them a Try.". The New York Times (San Francisco, California): p. B1. Archived from the original on 2021-09-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20210910035854/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/technology/facebook-wayfarer-stories-smart-glasses.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes. Retrieved 2021-09-10. "The process was instant, simple, unobtrusive — and it was powered by Facebook, which has teamed up with Ray-Ban. Their new line of eyewear, called Ray-Ban Stories and unveiled on Thursday, can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play music and podcasts."
