What Is the Difference Between Facebook Ray-Ban Stories, Snap Spectacles, & Amazon Echo Frames Smartglasses?

The rise of Facebook's collaboration with Ray-Ban to launch the Stories smart glasses has finally put an exclamation mark on a new category of smart glasses: augmented reality wearables.

And while the Facebook device isn't particularly innovative in terms of features already explored by other wearables, it stands out in some important ways. But now that there are so many smart glasses options available to the mass consumer, how do you choose the right pair of smart glasses? I'm glad you asked.

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While a few smart glasses have popped up, like North's Focals (now owned by Google) and Vuzix Blade (too bulky for casual users, perfect for business), just to name a couple, when it comes to really popular smartwatch options. points, there are only three lightweight portable wireless devices worth considering. For now, the main options are Snap's Spectacles 3 ($380), Amazon's Echo Frames ($249.99), and now Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories ($299). (It should also be noted that we're going to be focusing on Snap Spectacles 3 instead of the latest version of AR, simply because the latest experimental version of Snap wearables isn't available to mainstream consumers.)

When deciding which of the three main options to invest your time and money in, it's important to try and figure out how you'll use them and what's maximum important to you fashionable terms of features. So let's see in what way they compare across the board.

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PHOTO

Echo Frames from Amazon are immediately excluded in this category, since the device does not have cameras like in Spectacles 3 and Stories. Snap Spectacles 3 captures photos at 1728 x 1728 pixels and video at 1216 x 1216 pixels at 60 frames per second. Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories captures photos at 2592 x 1944 pixels and videos at 1184 x 1184 pixels at 30 frames per second.

In practice, I've found that photos and videos from Snap's Spectacles are generally better. In addition, Spectacles 3 has an additional feature that allows you to add AR-style 3D effects to your video footage after rendering through the Snapchat app. In the Facebook View app, you have the ability to add Instagram-style effects, but nothing immersive or 3D (yet). So if photography is your thing, I would still prefer Snap Spectacles 3 over Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories.

AUDIO

The audio category is one of the most important for smart glasses because since none of these wearables offer augmented reality capabilities, audio is sort of a virtual half step in tat direction. Trendy this case, Snap's Spectacles 3, which can record audio while recording video, falls by the wayside due to the lack of other audio features contained in the alternatives. Both Amazon's Echo Frames and Facebook's Ray-Ban Sections suggestion a hands-free mode that lets you give voice commands to activate various features.

In this sense, Echo Frames stands out from the rest because it has a full-fledged virtual assistant (Alexa) that can execute a long list of commands activated by your voice. By comparison, Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories only lets you use verbal commands to take photos or videos (but I think this feature will expand pretty quickly). Plus, both the Echo Frames and Stories allow you to take calls and listen to music and podcasts through the device, making them a pretty decent replacement for a pair of headphones if you're okay with the inherent leakage of open speakers. In this category, Amazon's Echo Frames win (but Stories comes in second).

SOFTWARE

It's no surprise that Spectacles 3 and Stories were the winners in the software category, as both are backed by companies whose livelihood depends on making the mobile app as simple and convenient as possible. Alternatively, while e-commerce giant Amazon has mastered the art of making online shopping easier, it still has room to develop user-friendly mobile apps that aren't directly focused on shopping.

Between shows and stories, the winner is simple: Snapchat. Spur-of-the-moment has been working on its Spectacles product for almost six years, so it makes sense that the company has ironed out the rough edges of its hardware and software integration. Also

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