The smart glasses by Facebook and Ray Ban are really on the home stretch: they’ve been talked about for some time, but now the presentation is imminent
The collaboration between Facebook and the iconic Ray Ban designers has been known since last year, when the social network giant announced the Aria project during the Facebook Connect digital event. And it’s a pride for Made in Italy, since Ray Ban is part of the luxury multinational Essilor Luxottica and is known worldwide for the now iconic style of many of its products.
Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, had further confirmed the project last July. It had been said that the smart glasses would offer typically Ray Ban lines, and the integration with the Facebook group’s social that one would expect from an object involving a very important reality of the modern era. According to what has emerged so far, the smart glasses of Facebook and Ray Ban will not be focused on augmented reality, that is, the technology by which you can superimpose additional information, virtual, to reality, but it seems that they can be a support to share more quickly, perhaps even instantaneously, what happens in everyday life.
Attended perfect integration with social
The biggest unknown is the design, how they were managed the overall dimensions of the components that will make them smart.
The lines, on the other hand, will unquestionably be Ray Ban: the logic suggested it in the months of waiting between last year’s announcement and the launch, and it is now suggested in a rather explicit way by the image that appeared on the Ray Ban website with which the company announces their presentation.
The image leaves no room for doubt about the date of the event, which will take place tomorrow, September 9, 2021. A few hours then and the smart glasses of Facebook and Ray Ban will be official, but from the poster you can already glimpse the typical lines of the brand Essilor Luxottica.
As for the functionality of the product mouths are still sewn, but a video in particular published by the head of the AR and VR division of Facebook Andrew Bosworth on Twitter may have given some hints in preview.
In fact, it seems that the small clips that make up the video shared on Twitter were taken from an unusual position, presumably by Facebook and Ray Ban’s smart glasses, which at this point could offer – as they say – great integration with the group’s social by simplifying the publishing of multimedia content, on all videos.
Problems solved in a year
Facebook has greatly accelerated the realization of a project that just a year ago seemed complicated by the search for the best ergonomics for different shapes and sizes of the face, reduced autonomy due to a battery miniaturized to the point of being contained in a pair of glasses, and concerns related to the privacy of those who are filmed without being able to account for it.
We must assume Facebook has overcome these issues or at least found a convincing answer for each of them. But just wait until tomorrow to find out: smart glasses from Facebook and Ray Ban are coming.