Some example photos and videos from the Meta Ray-Bans in my recent posts. (Pretty good, I must say!)
/cc: @ericmwalk
@pratik Not as far as I can tell. They’ve (surprisingly) done a good job about letting you keep it locked down. The only concession I’ve made that I don’t love is allowing location data, which is used to geotag the photos since the glasses don’t have their own GPS chip. But you can choose to turn that off if you want to.
@jarrod What do you mean? Don’t you need an Meta account for this app? And chances the data will get linked to other Meta apps?
@pratik Yes, you do need a Meta account. But you do not have to allow it to upload pictures/videos to Meta’s servers. It merely serves as the bridge between the glasses and your device, and how you update firmware, change settings, etc. That’s my understanding, at least, based on how I’ve got it set up. And I was wary going into it.
@jarrod wait a min hold up.... You were climbing in them?!? 😱 Next up you will be scaling that all with the Apple Vision Pros 🤣.
As for the quality if all of those are pictures and videos from the Ray-Bans that actually looked super clear. I am impressed. So does it only caputre like a 1 min video clip or did you trim things down for M.b.
@ericmwalk You betcha! That was my main reason for buying them, hands-free photos and videos for my clients while guiding! Usually I’d have to have my client stop climbing, tie off the rope, and then get my phone out to take the pics (all while worrying I’d drop it off the cliff). This was sooo much better and safer.
And yes, it caps at 60-second videos.
@jarrod wait really? Everything is in portrait? 🤮 Why why why!
Can you tell I am a huge fan of portrait.