Smart glasses are officially here
7/8/202626 min
There's a race to get smart glasses on your face. But privacy and security concerns are freaking people out.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
Victoria Song, senior reviewer for The Verge, models several pairs of smart glasses. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.
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First 90 secondsSean Rameswaram· Host0:00
Remember Snapchat? [upbeat music] The app best known for being the place to send disappearing photos and videos to your friends? Well, Snapchat was back in the news recently, but this time it was not about disappearing photos and videos. It was about smart glasses that you put and keep on your face. Snapchat was trying to get in on the game with a pair of black horn-rimmed-looking spectacles. Think the pair that the old man in Up- Uh. -wears, but like three times thicker and with a price tag of $2,195.
Callie Hayes· Guest0:33
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Sean Rameswaram· Host0:33
Photos of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing his Specs, that's what they're called by the way, Specs- Oh ... were all over the Internet, and not in a good way. People were laughing, and they laughed all the way over to the stock market, where Snap took a hit. But as you're gonna hear on Today Explained from Vox, Snap's playing the long game with smart glasses, and the rest of Big Tech is, too. Smart glasses are officially here, so we're gonna talk about them and worry about our privacy on the show today.
Russell Daniels0:57
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