Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories can be found in Spain, Austria and Belgium beginning right now, and they’ll additionally make their approach to France on April 14th. In addition to increasing the good glasses’ availability, Facebook has additionally launched new and upcoming options for the system, together with the flexibility to file as much as 60 seconds of video. That doubles the earlier restrict of 30 seconds of video, captured utilizing the twin 5-megapixel cameras on the entrance of the Stories’ body.
We discovered the glasses’ video high quality to be surprisingly good and even very steady after we examined it out. A LED lights as much as notify folks round you that you just’re recording, however the truth that it is lot simpler to start out recording movies by the glasses than by a telephone has raised privateness considerations from the beginning. Nevertheless, 60-second recording will roll out with a software program replace in early April.
To help the good glasses’ growth, Facebook View will now be out there in French, Spanish, Dutch and German. As the Stories’ companion app, View provides you a approach to edit and improve your photographs, in addition to to add them straight to social media web sites. Facebook can be giving the glasses the flexibility to grasp voice instructions in French and Italian, permitting you to take pictures and movies hands-free. And, sure, the system can now ship audible notifications, comparable to “low battery” and “full storage” alerts, in these languages.
Finally, Facebook and Ray-Ban proprietor Luxottica are unveiling 4 new colour and lens mixtures for the Stories in early April, bringing the entire variations to twenty-eight. The good glasses will likely be out there of their new markets with costs beginning at $299/€329.