How These Latest Facebook Smart Glasses Could Change Social Media

Watching a livestream feels a bit dated as of late.

For one thing, the technology involved has been around for some time. I remember watching a livestream of a graduation ceremony almost a decade ago, and the essential concept has not modified. Often, you would like a phone or a camera system just like the SlingStudio to make all of it work.

Recently, Meta announced an improved version of the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. The brand new model permits you to seek advice from an AI bot and are more comfortable to wear.

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The one feature that caught my eye has to do with livestreams. When the product comes out October 17, we’ll find a way to stream directly from the glasses to Facebook or Instagram with just a fast double-tap on the stem. Meta announced you can also view comments using the smart glasses and even hearken to live comments.

That quick access using smart glasses that you just are already wearing (versus fishing out your phone and finding the livestream option within the app) could possibly be a game changer. While the concept of recording videos or snapping photos from smart glasses isn’t exactly latest, the livestream feature will make it really easy to share live video that it’d change into more popular — or at the very least a bit more common.

There’s a couple of hurdles to creating that occur, though.

One is apparent — not lots of us are wearing glasses all day. For somebody like me who wears them anyway, it makes more sense. It’s not by accident that these are also available as sunglasses, which should appeal to anyone who happens to be outside.

A second hurdle is that, in my experience, anything you wear to record video can produce strange results. At a tech conference a couple of years back, I wore just a little recording device on my shirt and snapped photos and recorded video clips all day. Most of them didn’t prove. With glasses, at the very least you’re looking within the direction of the recorded video, but sudden head movements and other aspects won’t be one of the best for a livestream. At an outside concert, you may not need to do a recording for longer than one song, preferring to find a way to glance around as a substitute.

I like the concept of spontaneous recording, though. There’s not as much of a delay because you don’t should grab your phone, open the app, hunt around for the livestream option, and begin recording. At a skatepark on a sunny day, in the event you see a member of the family doing a cool latest trick, you possibly can do a fast double-tap to begin the livestream for anyone to see.

The sort of “within the moment” recording could change how we use social media. A few of the most amazing moments in life occur straight away — the arc of the sun as you drive along a road, a toddler taking a couple of steps for the primary time. By the point most of us say “grab a phone” those moments are gone, in a split second.

I’ll be curious to try the device and see if spur of the moment livestreams, video, and photos are easier to capture, at the very least for outdoor use. If the product is successful and we start seeing more livestreams, I could see the concept catching on quickly.

We’ll see if that happens.