Snapchat parent company Snap is giving the Spectacles experiment another go. Today, the company unveiled the second generation of the wearable camera, with some design changes, better download speeds and… Read More
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Snapchat parent company Snap may be gearing up to release a new version of its Spectacle video sunglasses. Overnight, an application from Snap for a “wearable video camera” with the Federal… Read More
Did Snap fall victim to its own hype around Spectacles, the vending-machine-dispensed video sunglasses it made people line up for earlier this year? That’s the conclusion in a new report… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is selling its camera-enabled Spectacles on Amazon. It’s the first time the company has sold the novel sunglasses through a third-party retailer. Until now, Spectacles were… Read More
The Spectacles have made their way to Daytona. NASCAR will use Snap’s new camera sunglasses this weekend at the Daytona 500 in Florida to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at… Read More
Ten days after showing up and dispensing colorful, high-tech camera sunglasses in front of a Dick’s Drive-In restaurant, Snapchat’s Spectacles vending machine did its thing at another Seattle institution on… Read More
A high school junior called her mom from class to come pick her up. A college nursing student bolted out of a lab. Two workers from a “Redmond tech giant”… Read More
Despite calling Los Angeles’ Venice Beach boardwalk home, Snap Inc., the parent of popular social media app Snapchat, is concerned about how foreign governments could harm its business. In its… Read More
Remember when rock stars wore sunglasses to look cool? Or to hide the lingering side effects of being a rock star? Now they wear them to shoot video — of… Read More
https://youtu.be/y94yqjm9Bvg The Spectacles made it into the sports world. Snap Inc., formerly known as Snapchat, has caused a stir with its new camera-embedded sunglasses that are only available on a limited… Read More
The debut of Snap Inc.’s camera-equipped sunglasses was exactly what you’d expect from the Los Angeles company: Unorthodox, viral, and a little too much. Spectacles went on sale Thursday from a… Read More
If you were the 26-year-old billionaire CEO of a company built on disappearing chat messages, who was simultaneously engaged to a supermodel, you’d see the world through rose-colored video-recording sunglasses,… Read More