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Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by keithwhor »

ellisdewalt wrote: post #119
keithwhor wrote: post #99

I think this is brilliant. Even the press details seem perfectly crafted, with one article referencing Evan's "supermodel girlfriend." Snapchat can win here based on brand alone. The hardware features are a plus, but they're going to sell a lifestyle. Think GoPro + Versace. Commenters here are caught up in the tech. It's not the tech. Get a few celebrities in these, people will buy them and barely use the recording f…

Not sure how it's brilliant. Secondly, it still suffers from that fact that literally everyone is creeped out by a rando staring at them with two cameras. At least a phone is halfway obvious when in use.

Consider that:

- You have to visibly tap the glasses to record

- People don't usually wear sunglasses indoors or at night (Corey Hart excluded)

- You're probably overestimating the amount of people that actually care if they get snapchatted

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by supercoder »

noobermin wrote: post #80
xkcd-sucks wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's impossible for attractive, socially connected, young people to be creepy. So, it's pretty brilliant for Snapchat to be making this sort of thing. Probably the devices to hit the market will be given to a very carefully curated set of people, and ubiquitous surveillance by camera-glasses will become fashionable.

As a young person (age of the CEO of snapchat), I say, yes they fucking can.

26 is young now ?

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by ellisdewalt »

keithwhor wrote: post #121
ellisdewalt wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how it's brilliant. Secondly, it still suffers from that fact that literally everyone is creeped out by a rando staring at them with two cameras. At least a phone is halfway obvious when in use.

Consider that: - You have to visibly tap the glasses to record - People don't usually wear sunglasses indoors or at night (Corey Hart excluded) - You're probably overestimating the amount of people that actually care if they get snapchatted

-Nobody else knows that. -That means they can't be used more than half the time. -No, I'm not.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

#124

Post by flohofwoe »

keithwhor wrote: post #99

I think this is brilliant. Even the press details seem perfectly crafted, with one article referencing Evan's "supermodel girlfriend." Snapchat can win here based on brand alone. The hardware features are a plus, but they're going to sell a lifestyle. Think GoPro + Versace. Commenters here are caught up in the tech. It's not the tech. Get a few celebrities in these, people will buy them and barely use the recording f…

I can't tell whether your comment is satire or serious, I should quit the internet today ;)

Also, that 'thing' looks even more ridiculous then Google Glass.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by ellisdewalt »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #78

I can't be the only one who thinks this is going to eat GoPro's lunch, am I? Sure the initial version may not be as high quality as a GoPro and the time limit isn't as good but those are easy things to fix and they have a monstrous social network (something GoPro is sorta trying to break into). If anything kills GoPro it's something like this.

The lenses aren't anything near that of a gopro. Name an app company that has gotten distribution of a hardware product.

If anything, the goal of this article is simply to have 3rd parties clone this idea.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by [deleted] »

orbitingpluto wrote: post #69

Now everybody can be Spider Jerusalem... Just like Google Glass users being called Glassholes, SnapChat glasses will probably be called something like SnapChads, because only white rich guys in pastel shorts and rugby shirts named Chad will use them. The aesthetic just isn't there for wide adoption.

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Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by StavrosK »

Sir_Substance wrote: post #103
potatoyogurt wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it is, but I don't think it's clear at this point. People certainly aren't going to wear this all the time, but I could definitely see it getting worn for many specific occasions. I see the niche it as something closer to a GoPro for things that aren't extreme sports. I already get random snapchats from friends and coworkers in their early to mid 20s who are dancing at a club, doing whatever it is people do at…

>It's awkward to pull out a phone and start taking video when you're in a club From my perspective, that's a feature not a problem. It's obvious what you're doing, and of you try to photograph something really inappropriate, I can always slap the phone out of your hand. With snapchat (or google glass) style specs, I essentially need to attack your face to stop you filming, a far more aggressive action. I'd love to be…

The lenses are so wide it'll be really hard to get anything other than shots of large things close up.

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by techterrier »

carleverett wrote: post #76
mikoR wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The above three comments to me summerise what has qualified as American Innovation for the last 15-20 years. When you are surrounded by the superficial, building things for the superficial what else can you produce other than the superficial. It is sad as hell to watch. It isn't ironic to me that Trump is going to be leading this bunch of innovators soon.

A few of the more significant American innovations in the last 15-20 years: -CRISPR, gene editing -iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. -re-usable space rockets (Spacex and Blue Origin) -IBM's Watson and Deep Blue, Google's AlphaGo -LIGO's detection of gravitational waves -MIT's improvements in lithium ion technology -NASA's exploratory discoveries on Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Saturn, etc. -Google -Wikipedia -Facebook -Tesla…

AlphaGo was a brit thing :P

Re: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

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Post by akhatri_aus »

flohofwoe wrote: post #124
keithwhor wrote: post #99

I think this is brilliant. Even the press details seem perfectly crafted, with one article referencing Evan's "supermodel girlfriend." Snapchat can win here based on brand alone. The hardware features are a plus, but they're going to sell a lifestyle. Think GoPro + Versace. Commenters here are caught up in the tech. It's not the tech. Get a few celebrities in these, people will buy them and barely use the recording f…

I can't tell whether your comment is satire or serious, I should quit the internet today ;) Also, that 'thing' looks even more ridiculous then Google Glass.

It doesn't look ridiculous to the audience its catered to. Thick frames are in style & its symmetrical. A typical snapchat user would not be concerned by most of the things mentioned on this thread, except that these glasses fit a certain lifestyle these users are aspiring to. I.e what you could be doing with these glasses on you as opposed to anything to do with the glasses themselves.

I guess the only way to find whos right is to wait a few months to see what its uptake is like

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