What The New Facebook Smart Glasses Teach Us About Ourselves – Forbes

Facebook smart glasses Facebook Every moment is fleeting. The time you spend going to dinner with your spouse. A two-week vacation visiting sunny California. The 20 minutes it takes to drive to work, depending on traffic. We won’t ever get that time back, which should make us more intentional. With social media, it’s the opposite. Intentionality is rarely the goal. It’s often diametrically opposed to the business plan, in fact. The goal is to provide an illusion that time is not passing, that when you scroll through your feed, you don’t notice the passage of time. Recently, Facebook released a new product called Ray-Ban Stories. The smart glasses can snap photos and shoot videos, and post them on your feed. You can listen to music or podcasts. Someday, the goggles might show you an augmented reality view of the world, although that is still TBD. For now, the $299 product is remarkably similar to the Snap Spectacles.  The idea with any wearable is to make technology more immediate and accessible without relying on our phones. You can be at that dinner, on a vacation, or even driving to work and decide to record something for posterity. And this is where…
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