Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories can now file as much as 60 seconds of video | Engadget

Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories can be found in Spain, Austria and Belgium beginning in the present day, and they’ll additionally make their strategy to France on April 14th. In addition to increasing the good glasses’ availability, Facebook has additionally launched new and upcoming options for the gadget, together with the flexibility to file as much as 60 seconds of video. That doubles the earlier restrict of 30 seconds of video, captured utilizing the twin 5-megapixel cameras on the entrance of the Stories’ body. 

We discovered the glasses’ video high quality to be surprisingly good and even very steady after we examined it out. A LED lights as much as notify individuals round you that you simply’re recording, however the truth that it is lot simpler to begin recording movies by means of the glasses than by means of a telephone has raised privateness considerations from the beginning. Nevertheless, 60-second recording will roll out with a software program replace in early April.

To help the good glasses’ enlargement, Facebook View will now be obtainable in French, Spanish, Dutch and German. As the Stories’ companion app, View offers you a strategy to edit and improve your photographs, in addition to to add them straight to social media web sites. Facebook can also be giving the glasses the flexibility to grasp voice instructions in French and Italian, permitting you to take images and movies hands-free. And, sure, the gadget can now ship audible notifications, equivalent to “low battery” and “full storage” alerts, in these languages. 

Finally, Facebook and Ray-Ban proprietor Luxottica are unveiling 4 new shade and lens mixtures for the Stories in early April, bringing the whole variations to twenty-eight. The good glasses will likely be obtainable of their new markets with costs beginning at $299/€329.