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03-12-2016, 01:00 AM
Report: Snapchat is assembling a super team to build smart glasses
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Today, you use your smartphone's cameras to take snaps and creates stories on Snapchat (http://mashable.com/category/snapchat/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial). But in the future, you could be Snapchatting with a pair of Google Glass (http://mashable.com/category/google-glass/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)-like smart glasses on your face.
According to CNET (http://www.cnet.com/news/snapchat-glasses-vergence-snap-labs-hints-wearable/), Snapchat has aggressively assembled a team of wearable experts to work on some kind of smart eyewear device.
See also: 10 hidden tricks to make Snapchat infinitely better (http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/snapchat-hidden-features/)
Recent hires for the top-secret project include Mark Dixon, an ex-Microsoft recruiter who's worked on the HoloLens and Xbox.
Eitan Pilipski, **w an engineering director at Snapchat, previously worked at Qualcomm's Vuforia (https://developer.vuforia.com/), a "vision-based augmented reality (AR) software platform" that created AR experiences for phones and smart glasses Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/11/snapchat-smart-glasses-augmented-reality/)
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Today, you use your smartphone's cameras to take snaps and creates stories on Snapchat (http://mashable.com/category/snapchat/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial). But in the future, you could be Snapchatting with a pair of Google Glass (http://mashable.com/category/google-glass/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)-like smart glasses on your face.
According to CNET (http://www.cnet.com/news/snapchat-glasses-vergence-snap-labs-hints-wearable/), Snapchat has aggressively assembled a team of wearable experts to work on some kind of smart eyewear device.
See also: 10 hidden tricks to make Snapchat infinitely better (http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/snapchat-hidden-features/)
Recent hires for the top-secret project include Mark Dixon, an ex-Microsoft recruiter who's worked on the HoloLens and Xbox.
Eitan Pilipski, **w an engineering director at Snapchat, previously worked at Qualcomm's Vuforia (https://developer.vuforia.com/), a "vision-based augmented reality (AR) software platform" that created AR experiences for phones and smart glasses Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/11/snapchat-smart-glasses-augmented-reality/)
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