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Definition: Snapchat Spectacles


Sunglasses from Snap Inc. that let wearers take up to a hundred 10-second videos per charge and send them via Bluetooth to their Snapchat app. Introduced in 2016, Spectacles became available in traveling "Snapbot" vending machines that showed up in various locations around the country for a single day as well as in Snap's New York storefront. See Snapchat.




The Original Spectacles
Snap offers several Spectacles with different sizes and functions. The top model is the Spectacles 3, which provides 3D capture and a four-microphone array. (Image courtesy of Snap Inc.)