299 dollars: this is the price of the new Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses similar toSnapchat Showsbut this time with a positioning resolutely focused on confidentiality. Repeated scandals oblige. A complete page on the Facebook site is in fact dedicated here to arguments in favor of the defense of privacy, explaining for example that an LED indicator is there to warn the subject that a snapshot is being captured, the device allowing you to take photos.
Stories are not currently available in France. We don't know if this will be the case one day, but the current exchange rate allows us to assume that if this is the case the price to buy them would be set between 250 and 350 dollars. To purchase this product, you must currently reside in Canada, the United States, Australia, Ireland, Italy or the United Kingdom. Otherwise,the most impatient can always register to be notified when the glasses arrive at their home.
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Technical sheet
The Ray-Ban Stories come with a wireless charging case, itself however powered via a USB-C cable supplied alongside a probably essential cleaning cloth to combat fingerprints. At the front is therefore installed a sensor to produce images with a definition of 2,592 by 1,944 pixels, compared to 1,184 by 1,184 px for video at thirty frames per second.
As with the AirPods Pro, these smartglasses also offer the possibility of making calls using speakers integrated into the branches. Supported by three microphones, these are compatible with Facebook's in-house voice assistant. Tactile and oral controls also allow you to control the operating system without having to take your smartphone out of your pocket, like on Watch.
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Storage and autonomy
With Stories glasses from Ray-Ban and Facebook, the user would be able to take no less than fifty videos and two hundred photos. This information should obviously be considered with a grain of salt, given that this of course depends on the quality of the files recorded but also on each individual's usage.
Finally, Palo Alto specifies that it has designed an app especially for the occasion: Facebook View. It is in fact a simple gallery which allows you to view your production afterwards, available both on the App Store and on Google Play. So, convinced?
