WEBVTT 00:00:00.125 --> 00:00:03.960 ♪ Facebook stories ♪ ♪ Ray-Ban glasses ♪ 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.040 - A Facebook whistleblower is testifying for a senate committee. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:11.430 I'm currently reading "An Ugly Truth", an exposé about Facebook and all their crappy practices 00:00:11.430 --> 00:00:15.280 over the past decade, and look what's here. Do you want a camera on your face 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:18.560 from one of the most data-hungry and malicious companies in the world 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:21.860 or at least negligent? I don't, but it comes in a big box. 00:00:21.860 --> 00:00:26.170 (cover thumps) Boom. Ray-Ban stories integrates Facebook technology 00:00:26.170 --> 00:00:30.590 with iconic Ray-Ban eyewear to bring you the new way to capture, share, and listen. 00:00:30.590 --> 00:00:36.383 Cool. - [David] Wow. - And now the actual product box that consumers will get. 00:00:37.484 --> 00:00:41.890 (grunts) So much waste in the world, you know. These magnets here just 00:00:42.980 --> 00:00:48.480 for no reason. A cylindrical prism, Wayfarer, Ray-Ban stories, 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:51.500 there's actually two styles, I kind of prefer the other type, 00:00:51.500 --> 00:00:55.420 which is the more like club round looking one. I actually own those sunglasses. 00:00:55.420 --> 00:01:00.303 I would have liked to have those, but Wayfarers are safe. They look good on everybody. These look good on me, too, 00:01:00.303 --> 00:01:04.583 but you know, it's riskier to get the rounds. So Ray-Ban, Facebook, 00:01:06.100 --> 00:01:10.730 a normal looking case. Download the Facebook View app. 00:01:10.730 --> 00:01:14.350 There's a new Facebook app that wants to live on your phone. 00:01:14.350 --> 00:01:18.260 And a charging cable, USB-C to shining sea, 00:01:18.260 --> 00:01:21.620 that's about two and a half feet long. Oh, 00:01:21.620 --> 00:01:26.300 oh cool, I didn't know it came with a, aw, I thought this was a string for the glasses 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:31.700 so you can wear them voting or something. It's actually just a little soft bag. 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:35.770 But you know what I always say, "On your face or in the case." 00:01:35.770 --> 00:01:40.430 This was not gonna save you from sitting on them. And then there is a little warranty bag. 00:01:40.430 --> 00:01:46.660 Oop, see you later. Oh, wait, one more thing. The hitchhiker's guide to the sunglasses wearable galaxy. 00:01:46.660 --> 00:01:49.900 Now, the glasses themselves, 00:01:49.900 --> 00:01:53.250 this case is a little heavier than normal. There's a light on it, hold on. 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:56.183 It was just glowing, amber. Yeah, it's a charge case. 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:04.070 Cool, it's got this kind of foamy, this is not Alcantara, this is like a foamy kind of innered padding 00:02:04.070 --> 00:02:08.510 and there's the glasses. And you can see 00:02:08.510 --> 00:02:12.850 they sit in here and it's actually a magnetic charging case. 00:02:12.850 --> 00:02:16.050 There's some contacts right there. And that is so cool, that these just go 00:02:16.050 --> 00:02:21.200 into a normal seeming case and you can't screw that up. They just kind of have to be 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:25.570 on the charger when they're in there. This is a little bulky, USB-C charger on the back. 00:02:25.570 --> 00:02:30.480 They are quite low profile. Yes, these arms are thicker than normal, 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:35.630 but they don't look obviously fat. Like these look pretty good, these are light. 00:02:35.630 --> 00:02:39.405 I will say that, I believe these were $300 (groans) 00:02:39.405 --> 00:02:44.610 and which is what, double the price of Wayfarer's? And they don't feel or look as nice 00:02:44.610 --> 00:02:48.510 as a regular pair of sunglasses. There's no metal on here. They're all plastic. 00:02:48.510 --> 00:02:52.450 They kind of look like what you get in a case of beer. There's no ability 00:02:54.307 --> 00:02:58.390 to articulate the nose piece. And I mean, not all sunglasses have that, 00:02:58.390 --> 00:03:00.113 but my Ray-Bans do. 00:03:01.700 --> 00:03:03.593 Ooh, kinda squishy. 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:11.980 How you doing Frank? I don't know why I always say that. It's from "Empire of the Sun". (laughs) 00:03:11.980 --> 00:03:15.900 Young Christian Bale says it. The camera's on the front. 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:20.870 You can see them there, they're on either side. I think the ones on the snap spectacles are larger 00:03:20.870 --> 00:03:24.090 and are like very obvious. These 00:03:24.090 --> 00:03:27.360 are kind of in that uncanny valley where 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:32.040 they're so small that you might not notice them, but not small enough that no one will notice them, 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:35.060 which kind of puts you in the whole like "I've been talking to you for 10 minutes 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:38.540 and now I noticed that you have cameras on your glasses and now I'm creeped out." 00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:42.190 So don't know with that. Now they do have a light that accompanies 00:03:42.190 --> 00:03:45.300 any photo or video that you take. 00:03:45.300 --> 00:03:49.760 It's a white light, we'll see that in a moment. And we'll see if that is sufficient to not creep people out. 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:54.830 I'm also seeing a little hold or toggle here. There's a switch it's showing red right now, 00:03:54.830 --> 00:03:58.500 like it's maybe off. That's gotta be the power, I'm assuming, 00:03:58.500 --> 00:04:04.152 but why don't I start by opening up the app, and I think you can get these without any tint. 00:04:04.152 --> 00:04:07.520 - [David] Oh, just like glasses? - Yeah, just like clear frame, but I don't know 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:12.930 what the point of that would be. Let's get your glasses paired enough to date. So you can capture moment, listen to media. 00:04:12.930 --> 00:04:17.050 You can use these as headphones and share memories with those who matter most, 00:04:17.050 --> 00:04:21.660 like the people on my Facebook are the ones who matter most. There's a lot of people on there who are just, 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:25.620 honestly, I didn't know they were on there until it was their birthday, and now I have to delete them. 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:29.360 Start by turning on your glasses. Slide and hold the power switch toward the lens 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:34.120 until the notification LED starts. I want that green light to blink. 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.660 All right, it's blinking blue. RB, Ray-Ban stories, 00:04:38.660 --> 00:04:43.711 there they are connecting. Allow access to your contacts and call history. 00:04:43.711 --> 00:04:48.670 (sighs loudly) I mean, Facebook probably already has all this, but no. 00:04:48.670 --> 00:04:54.520 Imagine this just goes like "New Guy" on me. I suddenly have this awesome HUD, but no, 00:04:54.520 --> 00:04:57.927 despite Facebook owning Oculus, these are not AR glasses. 00:04:57.927 --> 00:05:04.150 I'm not gonna have any cool overlays. I feel like I should disclose that that's what I want. 00:05:04.150 --> 00:05:07.170 Maybe if I think about this long enough and I get scared enough, I won't want this, 00:05:07.170 --> 00:05:11.510 but generally speaking, I want there to be a brain machine interface future, 00:05:11.510 --> 00:05:15.590 where we just are integrated with machines, and I think that wearables with AR 00:05:15.590 --> 00:05:19.530 are a stepping stone to that. These are not that. I want them to be, but they're not. 00:05:19.530 --> 00:05:23.350 These are just a way for me to like, just make more Facebook stories. 00:05:23.350 --> 00:05:26.670 So Facebook needs location access to connect 00:05:26.670 --> 00:05:30.280 your glasses' temporary Wi-Fi network for large file transfers. 00:05:30.280 --> 00:05:33.390 This is used to import, captures, and update your glasses. 00:05:33.390 --> 00:05:37.200 It needs it, dammit. Look at this, capture the moment hands-free. 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:41.050 Use Facebook assistant to take photos and videos with your voice. 00:05:41.050 --> 00:05:44.430 Hey, Facebook, take a video. 00:05:44.430 --> 00:05:48.590 I'll have to set it up. It's not gonna do that. Okay, so you don't need to use the voice. 00:05:48.590 --> 00:05:54.100 You could just go like this. I don't know what it's doing, but it went du-du-du. 00:05:54.100 --> 00:05:56.923 You guys can't hear this, but I'm getting all sorts of little like, budoops. 00:05:57.810 --> 00:06:00.920 I'm gonna use the Hey Facebook thing 'cause I have a hunch 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:05.270 that the person that this product is actually for is a hands-free person, 00:06:05.270 --> 00:06:08.990 because I'm guessing that the video and picture quality 00:06:08.990 --> 00:06:12.870 is gonna be worse than your phone. And so this is really about not having 00:06:12.870 --> 00:06:15.990 to take out your phone and I'm probably riding my bicycle 00:06:15.990 --> 00:06:21.440 or something like that. I think I would want the voice. Press and hold to take a photo. 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:25.270 The white notification LED will blink and make a sound during the capture. 00:06:25.270 --> 00:06:29.930 But first, thanks to Vessi Footwear for sponsoring this video. Vessi shoes are known for being lightweight, 00:06:29.930 --> 00:06:33.730 easy to pack, comfortable, and most importantly, waterproof. Designed to keep you moving, 00:06:33.730 --> 00:06:38.790 Vessi just released their Everyday Move shoes. And I got to say, these are the best looking Vessis 00:06:38.790 --> 00:06:43.440 I've seen and they're my second pair, pretty cool. 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I was listening to an interview 00:07:23.460 --> 00:07:28.549 with Kara Swisher and Elon Musk and on my way in here and it just started playing. 00:07:28.549 --> 00:07:31.610 (laughs) So bizarre. 00:07:31.610 --> 00:07:36.080 I wonder why it did that. Did I hit the touch pad? Oh, I did. (audio plays) 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:39.230 Play and pause. Now, is this bone conduction or... 00:07:39.230 --> 00:07:42.110 No, there's actually speakers, they're right here. Can you see that? 00:07:44.760 --> 00:07:47.900 It's pretty clear. And it's cool, there's nothing in my ears at all. 00:07:47.900 --> 00:07:52.080 And if, especially if I'm riding a bike or on a skateboard or something like that, I can hear everything around me. 00:07:52.080 --> 00:07:57.410 So good use case for that. We will try music in a bit. Tap once to play audio, double tap to skip forward, 00:07:57.410 --> 00:08:01.170 triple tap to go back, that's very nice. I wonder if I can swipe for volume, that would be cool. 00:08:01.170 --> 00:08:05.220 Adjust volume swipe forward to turn up the volume, back to turn down, yes. 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:08.500 This light will go orange when the battery is low. 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:12.729 Now, what the heck was I doing? I'm just trying to take a picture or a video. 00:08:12.729 --> 00:08:17.020 (beeps) So it does a single tone, like beep but I have no idea. 00:08:17.020 --> 00:08:21.560 Okay, the light up here, I do have an idea. This light on the inside is on. 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:26.010 Okay, so is it gonna just only do 30 seconds, no more, no less? - I don't know. 00:08:26.010 --> 00:08:30.040 - Can I stop it? I can stop it. 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.090 Now Quentin Tarantino is talking to me. God, 00:08:33.090 --> 00:08:38.283 all these deplorables. (laughs) Okay, so let me show you a test here. 00:08:39.610 --> 00:08:42.670 I have paused the podcast. Now I'm gonna try to record a video, 00:08:42.670 --> 00:08:47.900 and when I stop that video, I don't want the podcast to be playing. I want to know if just by hitting record button, 00:08:47.900 --> 00:08:51.093 I'm easily inadvertently playing the podcast. 00:08:52.110 --> 00:08:55.470 That's recording. Stop recording. 00:08:55.470 --> 00:08:58.820 No podcast, we did it. I was being very careful. This button kind of sucks. 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:04.280 It's not very tactile, it's kind of mushy, and it's easy to feel like I'm only rocking the side of it 00:09:04.280 --> 00:09:07.290 and not the whole thing. I will say that the internal light, 00:09:07.290 --> 00:09:11.920 the notification LED, is really outside of your vision. You kind of have to look up to see it, which is pretty cool. 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:15.200 It's not like, it's not annoying. You have to glance at it. 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:19.814 Hey Facebook. (beeps) (laughs) - That was a fun noise. 00:09:19.814 --> 00:09:25.863 - Buwee. Hey, Facebook, take a photo. (camera clicks) 00:09:26.910 --> 00:09:30.040 Cool, and I could see the internal LED blink a bit when it's about to take that. 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:33.940 That's kind of cool. It takes a few seconds. And I wonder if that's for a creep factor 00:09:33.940 --> 00:09:37.070 or maybe it's a limitation of the technology, but it seems like it would be hard to like 00:09:37.070 --> 00:09:41.530 capture a quick shot of someone's pee pee at the urinal 00:09:41.530 --> 00:09:44.910 or something like that. 'Cause it does take, okay, 00:09:44.910 --> 00:09:47.997 let's say your pee pee's over here, and I'm like, "Yeah." 00:09:49.035 --> 00:09:52.980 (camera clicks) That's about as fast I can do, and that's okay. 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:56.605 Now, let's say I'm gonna start taking a picture now and move over 00:09:56.605 --> 00:09:59.663 (camera clicks) pretty quick. 00:10:00.570 --> 00:10:04.400 But let's see in our app, if there's like a lot of motion blur or something, 00:10:04.400 --> 00:10:08.500 maybe that didn't work at all. Lets Facebook View import new captures for you. 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:11.980 Background location... Allow all the time. 00:10:11.980 --> 00:10:15.840 I am not digging the location requirements of this product, man. 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:19.600 Oh, I guess I had 13 images on the device 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:24.360 and now I'm downloading, I'm importing them. So you can do that, you can do that 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.440 if you don't want to share a location. Like why do they even have to get imported into this? 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:33.130 The snapshots, the spectacles from Snap, I believe you just take a capture 00:10:33.130 --> 00:10:36.520 and it goes directly to your account, like you can share it from the glasses. 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:40.780 Isn't that what a power user wants to do? Isn't that who is gonna buy this? 00:10:40.780 --> 00:10:44.210 Why wouldn't I be able to just share this directly to Instagram or Facebook? 00:10:44.210 --> 00:10:47.693 It doesn't make any sense. Now let's see the quality of what we've captured. 00:10:49.180 --> 00:10:51.403 Okay, the app crashed. Let's try again. 00:10:52.965 --> 00:10:57.166 It crashed again. Let's try opening a different photo. 00:10:57.166 --> 00:11:00.740 (David laughs) I also can't tell from this interface, 00:11:00.740 --> 00:11:05.860 which of these are photos and which of these are videos. Oh, wait, looks like it's importing again. 00:11:05.860 --> 00:11:10.060 I'm hearing ocean noises in here, too. Now I can see timestamps on the videos. 00:11:10.060 --> 00:11:14.893 Okay, they're all done. It appears that my pervert test went well 00:11:14.893 --> 00:11:18.870 (David laughs) and it was easy to take photos with no motion blur. 00:11:18.870 --> 00:11:20.223 Now, what about videos? 00:11:23.460 --> 00:11:26.880 It was already recording. (camera clicks) 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:32.210 The photo's in here. It looks like, I don't know, a photo from like 00:11:32.210 --> 00:11:35.230 a Pixel 1, 2 or something. I can adjust 00:11:37.030 --> 00:11:42.400 the brightne SS, the sharpen, the saturatio N, 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:44.653 and the warmth, I can enhance. 00:11:45.520 --> 00:11:48.170 Wow, I actually did a pretty good job enhancing that. 00:11:49.510 --> 00:11:54.360 That's way warmer, and I can crop. If I were trying to export this directly 00:11:54.360 --> 00:12:00.870 to a story on Facebook or Instagram, you'd think that it was gonna be portrait. I can save this to my phone and I can share. 00:12:00.870 --> 00:12:04.503 But what happens if I go to Facebook your story? 00:12:05.630 --> 00:12:09.500 Yeah, so it basically, treats it like any other content when I'm sharing it to Facebook. 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:13.760 It doesn't really seem to know that this content came from their own product. 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:18.310 It's really, anyone could have made this it seems. Shall we make a phone call then? 00:12:18.310 --> 00:12:23.913 - [David] Sure. - Hi, Dennis. I'm just calling you using my Facebook sunglasses. 00:12:24.790 --> 00:12:28.240 - [Dennis] Oh my God, I want that. - You want them? - You got it, you got it? 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.756 That's so cool. - Why do you want them? - Just to creep around. - To creep around. 00:12:32.756 --> 00:12:36.590 (David laughs) Okay, wow, you know what? I think I feel you, I'm into it, too. 00:12:36.590 --> 00:12:40.780 I want to take these home this weekend. (David laughs) - You sound good really good, 00:12:40.780 --> 00:12:44.383 like very clear. - I sound good? You sound pretty good, too. Calls are pretty good. 00:12:44.383 --> 00:12:48.660 I think the only last thing I want to try is music. You know what, I'm gonna give it its best shot possible. 00:12:48.660 --> 00:12:52.840 I'm gonna listen to some master tracks from TIDAL, TIDAL HiFi. (David laughs) 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:57.440 Is it coming on my phone? Yeah, it's coming out my phone. 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:01.313 Why? What about this? 00:13:02.760 --> 00:13:07.820 Okay, this podcast is coming through here, but TIDAL wasn't, why? 00:13:07.820 --> 00:13:11.730 Okay, let me try YouTube music. (audio playing) 00:13:11.730 --> 00:13:14.880 That was coming out of the phone. Trying to get my mind around this. 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:19.150 Well, what would it do with YouTube then? - Boy, if I got a fun project for you guys... 00:13:19.150 --> 00:13:23.430 - Phone. what if I use Spotify, which is everything? 00:13:23.430 --> 00:13:27.160 Check out "They're Just Movies". That's coming through. That'll work with your Facebook glasses 00:13:27.160 --> 00:13:32.233 so will our new James Bond review, I'm sure. Well, what happens if I play music through Spotify? 00:13:33.290 --> 00:13:36.380 It's in there. - What the heck? - What is this? 00:13:36.380 --> 00:13:40.340 That sounded bad, I'm out of here. No offense, "Youngblood" fans. 00:13:40.340 --> 00:13:45.183 I don't know guys, hit or miss? Calls worked at least, podcasts seem to work. 00:13:46.221 --> 00:13:49.730 Is Spotify a podcast app and that's why it works? 00:13:49.730 --> 00:13:53.553 I don't understand them. (audio playing) Whoa. 00:13:54.940 --> 00:13:59.920 That is a brutal song, I don't, I'm sorry, but it's weird that I can control 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:04.390 the music with the glasses, but the music is not coming through the glasses. 00:14:04.390 --> 00:14:07.510 Maybe this is a bug and it'll get worked out, but right now this is broke. 00:14:07.510 --> 00:14:10.557 You're meant to get three charges, (groans) 00:14:10.557 --> 00:14:14.340 three charges out of the charge case. They're meant to last like six hours, 00:14:14.340 --> 00:14:20.500 but I think if you've used them quite a bit or do a long call, you're not gonna get close to that. 00:14:20.500 --> 00:14:24.380 Overall, I think they kind of look cheap. They are not cheap, 00:14:24.380 --> 00:14:27.540 but at least they look like glasses. They don't look like Google glass. 00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:32.750 They look like glasses, so they're good for that. They could be used useful for select cases 00:14:32.750 --> 00:14:35.423 like people who are maybe doing sports, 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:40.350 biking, skateboarding, snowboarding, but for general people, 00:14:40.350 --> 00:14:46.080 I don't think you're gonna buy them. And I don't think you're meant to buy them. Honestly, I think Facebook did this as an experiment 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:52.710 to build the products they want to build in the future. Can we partner with the existing Industrial design company? 00:14:52.710 --> 00:14:56.210 Can we scale up? Can we make an app for it? 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:59.327 Like they just wanted to get their feet wet. And at the end of that, they said, 00:14:59.327 --> 00:15:03.650 "Oh, we might as well sell the few hundred thousand that we make." So good luck to you, Facebook. 00:15:03.650 --> 00:15:05.763 I hope your future products are cooler. 00:15:07.090 --> 00:15:11.620 And I also hope that they come from a business division that is broken up from your core business. 00:15:11.620 --> 00:15:13.973 Regulate Facebook, delete Facebook, 00:15:14.830 --> 00:15:18.810 kiss Zuckerberg for his philanthropy. 00:15:18.810 --> 00:15:22.353 That is all, bye-bye. Sub ShortCircuit.