The Gentleman Magazine Issue 9 | June 2018 | Page 92

THE NEWEST SPECTACLES FROM SNAPCHAT
S pectacles take Snaps from your personal perspective, with
just the tap of a button – so you’re free to stay in the moment.
When you’re ready to view your Snaps, simply transfer to
Snapchat Memories. Keep your Snaps as memories for yourself,
send to friends, post to your Story, or even download to your
phone’s camera roll!
The new version of Spectacles incorporates some of our
community’s most requested features — water resistance
and photo mode — as well as design updates and technical
improvements that we hope make Spectacles more fun on the
go and more seamless to use.
We put a lot of effort into improving the end-to-end Spectacles
experience. The three most important things we focused on
were adding water resistance, improving image and audio
quality, and increasing transfer speed.
What’s New?
• 3 New Colours + More Fun to Wear: We kept the classic look
but are introducing three new approachable colours: onyx, ruby,
and sapphire. You can now choose between two Lens shades
for each colour. Additionally, we’ve further miniaturised the
electronics so they’re sleeker and more lightweight. The temple
area of the frame, which houses the bulk of the electronics, is
about ⅓ smaller. This means the charging case is smaller too!
The case is over 20% smaller.
• Water-Resistant: Spectacles are now water resistant, so you
can take a photo or video in shallow water! Water resistance
offers you even more freedom to keep adventuring with your
Spectacles.
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• Content Quality: Specs now take photos as well as videos,
and all Snaps now transfer in HD only. Press and hold to
capture a photo Snap or tap to capture up to 30 seconds of
continuous video. New dual microphones now capture clearer,
higher quality sound, reducing wind noise and balancing the
conversations in your Snaps.
• Simple Transfer: We developed a Wi-Fi only import that
eliminates the need for SD content - so all content is in HD.
This simplifies the experience and ensures you only see the
highest possible video quality. Snaps also appear in Memories
4x faster thanks to improved transfer speed. And thanks to
“home wifi” memory, Snaps can transfer automatically to
Snapchat when you return home. Our first Spectacles had a 9
second/video average transfer time, with the latest Spectacles
we’re seeing below 3 second/video.
Why We’re Invested
Since launching Spectacles, we’ve been learning from our
community to better understand how Spectacles can fit into
their lives, and we’re eager to see how this new generation of
Spectacles is adopted and used.
Snapchat is the most used camera in the world. Today nearly
all of the 3.5 billion Snaps captured every day on Snapchat are
taken on a phone -- but we believe that will not always be the
case. 
Our Snap Lab team is responsible for ensuring that the Snap
Camera remains the most used camera in the world long-term,
even as camera devices evolve.
, Security in Motion”