The standard Jackie Ohh model is especially popular with women. Some designs that appeal to both men and women include the Round and Hexagonal collections, with each collection name corresponding to its respective lense shape. While the Aviator and Wayfarer get most of the attention, Ray-Ban offers plenty of other designs.
It doesn’t record logs of anything else I say (at least I don’t think so). Unfolding the glasses and putting them on, I hear a little chime sound. If I say, “Hey Facebook,” a little gentle chirp sounds near my ears letting me know it’s listening. Also, there’s an LED light that appears in the upper corner of my peripheral vision of my right eye that I can just barely see.
The company has partnered with Ray-Ban to make a pair of video-capturing Wayfarers. And after days of trying them out, I still didn’t have the sense that I needs Ray-Ban Stories. But it’s going to be tough for Facebook to convince most people that they have to have a gadget that can replicate a few of their phone’s features while sitting on their face — even one that looks clubmaster this good. I spoke with Jeremy Greenberg, policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum and one of the people Facebook spoke with while developing Ray-Ban Stories, about my experience. He said there’s “definitely some concerns” that people didn’t appear to notice that I was capturing pictures and videos — something that would be more obvious if I had pulled out my phone.
Spatial audio, longer battery life, Adaptive EQ, and an all-new design. The Ray-Ban Stories come in several iconic Ray-Ban styles like Wayfarer, and there are five color options. There is no Facebook branding on the glasses as the design and distribution has been handled by Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica with Facebook providing internals.
These sunglasses would later be rebranded as the Ray-Ban Aviator and sold to the general public. Where Snap’s design team has leaned into the Burning Man aesthetic for its Spectacles, Facebook and Ray-Ban went normcore. If you ignore the fact that they have cameras and wireless connectivity, Ray-Ban Stories are just a pair of Wayfarers. We weighed one of the pairs, which measured 49.3 grams—just shy of the stated 49.6 grams cited in the specs, and around 5 grams more than the original Wayfarers they’re modeled after.
You can opt-in to share additional data — which includes things like the number of images you captured or how long you spend taking videos — with Facebook for product development, improvement, and personalization. Similarly, our 5MP cameras are able to deliver superior media experiences compared with many more powerful cameras, thanks to a lot of work under the hood on the processing pipeline. The photos and videos captured on Ray-Ban Stories are perfectly suited for sharing to your favorite app. We designed media capture to stand up to a lot of movement — from your head swiveling to take in a scene to the speed of capture from your skateboard. Optimizations from our computational photography work include HDR and Low Light Fusion, Video Stabilization, and Denoising.