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snaps back with a new version of spectacles the sunglasses with a camera inside like the first version these glasses record circular video for snapchat there's a single button that starts recording in the case doubles as a charger so let's dive into what's new in version 2 the big change is that they now take photos as well as videos you just have to press and hold the button on the temple now the field of view of the lens has actually reduced a little bit so it's now 105 degrees rather than 115 degrees so this means you'll probably get slightly less in your shot but it should compensate a little bit better for that fisheye effect so things won't look so warped but the big deal is that they are water-resistant now snap hasn't told us exactly how water-resistant they are but they'll be fine for splashing around in the pool or taking to the beach and overall the design is just lighter so the electronics have been miniaturized the temples are smaller and it just feels lighter on the face meowww do dual microphones make audio clearer than version one and glasses wearers can swap in prescription lenses clips now transfer in HD and that process is a lot faster thanks to a Wi-Fi connection when you want to look at the photos and videos the only way to do that is through snapchat once they're transferred you can rotate the phone around to view all parts of the image and then share them out of snaps or export them but photos and videos will have white borders around the edges here's the thing you actually can't film yourself with spectacles unless you hold them out like this which doesn't look great sure you can pull out your phone but that kind of defeats the purpose photo and video quality is totally fine for viewing on snapchat with colors looking nice and punchy like many cameras with small sensors things look best in daylight images in low light so it'd look great but then again if you're wearing sunglasses at night image quality probably isn't your number one criteria snaps hoping to learn from the mistakes from version 1 because they only sold two hundred and twenty thousand of them then making them much easier to buy from the website rather than vending machines these actually cost twenty dollars more than the original version and if you're anything like me one hundred and fifty dollars is a lot of money to spend on a pair of sunglasses I mean they're not designer sure they look nice but in the back of my mind I'm always thinking I could have used that money to go towards like a real pair of sunglasses a real designer pair so the question is does having spectacles and making use snapchat more or less now snaps hoping that the answer is gonna be more I found that when I've been using these and the previous version of spectacles I was using them a lot when I first got them but then over the period of about a month or two I just stopped using them and in turn I just started pulling out my phone instead and really over that period of time since the first spectacles and this version I actually used snapchat a lot less as well turns out I'm not alone from snaps latest earnings report the company has a slowest rate of user growth ever and some of the most exciting things that snaps working on like AR games called snapper balls are still tied to the app itself so the bottom line is spectacles are a lot of fun to use but they're expensive and probably priced out of the reach of most snapchatters not being able to record longer clips without constantly pressing the button is annoying as for privacy it's still a huge gray area even though the lights flash to show you're filming you're still going to capture audio and video of people that probably didn't realize they were being recorded and once the novelty of sunglasses wears off sometimes it is just easier to pull out your phone to record a clip that you can watch everywhere rather than just snapchat you