Articles about Spectacles

Snap acquires assets from Rec Room as social gaming platform announces shutdown

Snap has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., with some employees joining the Spectacles hardware subsidiary, as the Seattle-based social gaming company shuts down its platform on June 1. Read More

Snap unveils next generation Spectacles, taking another shot at wearable hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpbyj-hz05s Snapchat parent company Snap is giving the Spectacles experiment another go. Today, the company unveiled the second generation of… Read More

TLDR: Day 2 of Zuckerberg’s testimony, protest at Amazon HQ, Snap Spectacles

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Hints of next generation Snap Spectacles camera glasses pop up in FCC filing

Snapchat parent company Snap may be gearing up to release a new version of its Spectacle video sunglasses. Overnight, an application… Read More

Blinded by the hype? Report says Snap is sitting on thousands of unsold Spectacles video sunglasses

Did Snap fall victim to its own hype around Spectacles, the vending-machine-dispensed video sunglasses it made people line up for… Read More

Amazon starts selling Spectacles with snappy delivery

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is selling its camera-enabled Spectacles on Amazon. It’s the first time the company has sold the… Read More

How NASCAR will use Snapchat’s Spectacles at this weekend’s Daytona 500

The Spectacles have made their way to Daytona. NASCAR will use Snap’s new camera sunglasses this weekend at the Daytona… Read More

Snapchat’s Spectacles bot shows up in Seattle again, this time at the top of the Space Needle

Ten days after showing up and dispensing colorful, high-tech camera sunglasses in front of a Dick’s Drive-In restaurant, Snapchat’s Spectacles… Read More

‘Swagged-out cameras for my eyes!’ Snapchat fans ditch work and school to snag Spectacles in Seattle

A high school junior called her mom from class to come pick her up. A college nursing student bolted out… Read More

As it files for IPO, Snap Inc. warns that Brexit and restrictions in China could pose problems

Despite calling Los Angeles’ Venice Beach boardwalk home, Snap Inc., the parent of popular social media app Snapchat, is concerned… Read More

I wear my sunglasses at night … rocker uses Spectacles to capture stage view at Seattle concert

Remember when rock stars wore sunglasses to look cool? Or to hide the lingering side effects of being a rock… Read More

Snapchat and sports: How the NHL’s Minnesota Wild used the new Spectacles

https://youtu.be/y94yqjm9Bvg The Spectacles made it into the sports world. Snap Inc., formerly known as Snapchat, has caused a stir with its… Read More

What a Spectacle! Hundreds line up to buy Snapchat’s sunglasses from a pop-up vending machine

The debut of Snap Inc.’s camera-equipped sunglasses was exactly what you’d expect from the Los Angeles company: Unorthodox, viral, and… Read More

Who saw this coming? Snapchat is now Snap Inc., and they want to put these video sunglasses on your face

If you were the 26-year-old billionaire CEO of a company built on disappearing chat messages, who was simultaneously engaged to… Read More