Facebook on your face: Facebook glasses created in collaboration with Ray-Ban

The first pair of smart glasses made by Facebook & Ray-Ban will be available from Thursday. They will be on sale for around 299 USD (EU price unknown). They're called Ray-Ban Stories and you'll find them almost anywhere Ray-Bans are sold.

The frames have two front cameras for recording video and photos. They sync with a companion camera app called Facebook View, where you can edit and share shots with other apps on your phone (not just Facebook). There's a physical button to record on the glasses, or you can say "Hey Facebook, record a video" to control them hands-free.

And, perhaps most importantly, they look and feel just like normal glasses.

With its basic photo and video capability, Ray-Ban Stories are essentially a sleeker version of Snapchat's Spectacles, which first debuted in 2016 to much fanfare and anticipation.

But let's go back to the new extremely interesting product. Speakers are located on both sides of the frame and can play audio from your phone via Bluetooth, allowing you to take a call or listen to a podcast. A trackpad built into the side of the frame allows you to change the volume or play and pause audio playback. Both cameras record with 5 million pixels. The space, or data storage, is not yet known. The battery should enable active use of the glasses for up to 5 hours. Of course, it's all connected to the app on your phone! Which enables the processing and sharing of captured video material.

This is the first step to the next joint project, which would definitely be more challenging and in the direction of an argumentative reality.