Snap Spectacles 3 review reaching new depths

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It had been three years ago this week that Specs first arrived, via colorful Snapbot vending machines that captivated Snapchat fans. But early buzz plus largely positive reviews led Snap in making too many of the first-generation video-recording shades than it could actually sell, as well as the company was forced to write down almost $40 million in costs.

An additional generation arrived last spring having a refreshed, waterproof design and the capability to snap still photos for the first time. Yet Spectacles 2 didn’t cause fifty percent the stir that their precursors had, the company’s vice leader of hardware departed, and Snap’s device ambitions faded into the history.

Now Spectacles 3 have came, available exclusively through Snap’s on-line Spectacles store. They come with a impressive new design and a much higher cost $380, up from $150 to $200 for the previous version. (Spectacles 2 remain on sale. ) Snap says the changes reveal its intended audience for the brand new Spectacles: fans of high fashion plus artists who relish new innovative tools. It’s also a way of staying away from another big writedown: measuring requirement carefully with a single online storefront, then selling each unit in a price that lets the company recover a bigger share of its investment.

Plus Spectacles 3 are a milestone for that company in another way, too, TOP DOG Evan Spiegel told me in a current interview. Thanks to a second camera that will lets the device perceive depth initially, Snap can now integrate its software program into the real world using special filter systems that map to the world taken in a video.

“What’s really fascinating about this version is that, because V3 has depth, we’re starting to really understand the world around you, Spiegel said. “So those augmented actuality effec

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