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- (FBE) Today we're gonna be doing something
a little bit different. - All right.
- Super pumped, you know? No laptop, let's go.
- (FBE) Today you are going to be reacting to these.
- Sunglasses!
- What are these? Do they have cameras?
- Wait, is there cameras in here?
- There's something sort of interesting here.
Looks like a camera lens.
- I've seen these.
These are the Snapchat glasses, right?
- The Snap Spectacles.
Everyone was talking about them.
They're so cool. I can't wait to try them on.
- Oh, I hit a button and it's lighting up. What did I do?
Is it searching for WiFi? Do sunglasses need WiFi now?
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- (FBE) Well, these are called Snapchat Spectacles.
- (intrigued) Oh.
- You can put these on and Snapchat people?
Stop. - That's tight.
- Snapchat glasses? Like, that's a little much.
- I'm new to Snapchat, so now I feel REALLY behind.
- This is too much for me.
I can't handle technology and what it's come to.
- (FBE) We're gonna have you start using them.
So what we've done is we've paired the glasses
with the official FBE Snapchat account. - Oh.
- (FBE) So all you need to do to record a video
is put them on and push the Record button,
which is on the top of the glasses.
And a light will come on, showing you that you're recording.
- O-kay!
- I guess I have to... okay.
- Is it going? Does that mean-- oh shoot, what's up, Snapchat?
Oh, I'm gonna try not to move my head so much.
But hey, lookit. Now you can see from my eyes, literally.
- Yo, yo, what's up, guys?
This is Moises, repping the Fine Bros crew.
Y'all can't see me, but look around. This is what it looks like.
- Hey, what's up, Snapchat?
I got my boys over here. We're filming an episode.
- Hey, guys! It's Olivia.
You can see my entire body, which you never can.
I have legs. I do.
- Hello, myself. This is what it looks like behind the desk.
Yeah.
- What do I do? Nothing's happening, so...
It's blinking.
- I can't see anything, 'cause my glasses are right here.
So it's all just blurry to me. But this is pretty cool.
- This is so strange. Hello.
Looking around. Hi!
- (frantically) Snapchat community, I don't have much time.
It's me, Teens React Eric from the year 2172.
The Norlocks are coming! You have to run!
Oh, it turned off.
I didn't get enough time to tell them about the Norlocks.
- It's recording right now?
- Coming at you live from FBE studios.
How are you doing? - Is it recording?
- Look at me. It's about me right now.
- Can you see me? - (snickering) Yes, I can see you.
- That's pretty tight. - Say something.
- How you doing? - Good.
Michael.
- (FBE) You just sent a video to Snapchat
right from your glasses. - Wow. Dude, that's so cool.
- That's crazy.
- That's insane!
- I can play with these for hours.
- These look awful, but I feel like the biggest perk from this
is no hands, and you can see from my point of view.
This is great. Technology's amazing.
- (FBE) And that's pretty much what it does.
- Nothing else?
- You can't even take pictures?
- It literally just goes to Snapchat?
- That's Snapchat though. Like, what do you--
I don't know what more I should expect.
- My phone does the same thing.
It films and goes straight to my Snapchat.
- Well, I mean, it kinda blocks light.
Like, I can look at these lights and not cry. So that's good.
- It's cool; I'll give it that. - You got me so bent.
I will wear these every freaking day.
That's some crazy stuff.
- (FBE) What are some things that you wish
or you hope that it would do in the future?
- Uh... maybe you could put filters on people's faces
just by looking at them.
- If I put these glasses on, I'd see you with the dog filter.
- It would be nice to take just a picture, I guess.
- Does it have flash in it to work at night?
'Cause you could always put flash in it.
- It's perfect just the way it is.
To do this and to pair it with such a huge platform,
I think it was done really well.
- (FBE) So real quick: we're gonna now show you the video
that you took on Snapchat. - Okay.
- (FBE) And no matter which way you flip the phone,
what you filmed will adjust.
- Oh. That's why it's got the two lenses.
- (on phone) Hello there. There's little lights.
- Yo, this is cool.
- I mean-- - (on phone) Nothing's happening, so...
- Okay. Yeah, that's cool.
- It's kind of GoPro-like in a way.
- Yo-whoa-whoa-whoa. - Wait. What?
- What the freak is happening? - Wait, stop.
Okay, that's enough seeing it, Michael. - That's so tight!
- (FBE) Is Snapchat something used by ABC or The Real O'Neals
as part of engaging with fans?
- Yeah, we have the ABC Network Snapchat.
And usually, someone from a show takes it over every single day.
Snapchat's really popular. So I think it's a good way to just
engage with fans.
- (FBE) Well, Snapchat's been around for a while now.
Would you say that this is an app that most teens are using?
- Yes, definitely. Everybody uses it.
If you don't have Snapchat, what are you doing?
- I'm the only person in the world
that, I think, doesn't have a Snapchat.
And every time someone brings it up, they're like,
(gruff voice) "You don't have a Snapchat? What? What's insane!"
- I like it, 'cause I think the filters are absolutely hilarious.
So I'll take pictures of myself.
- You have your group of friends
you have your streaks with or whatever.
So you send Snapchats to them, and you have your stories.
- You see what people are doing. So watching people's stories--
even if they're boring, it's still entertaining.
- Phases of social media kinda go by.
But Snapchat's sticking around.
I think it's because people really like showing people their day.
- (FBE) So how important is social media
as part of being an actress on a major TV show?
- Social media is really, really important.
The more followers you have, the more people watch your show.
- (FBE) Going back to the glasses,
do you think that they're practical?
Would you go out and wear them? - No.
- No. J-- no.
It's not that hard to just do this.
- I wouldn't wear them unless I knew I was doing something cool.
- I don't think it's very practical.
But I'm sure if you wanted to play around with it for a day,
it'd be quite entertaining.
- They're kind of ridiculous, but just because of the fact
that you can record straight from here
makes you want to wear them.
- A few weeks ago, I was Snapchatting myself skateboarding
next to the No Skate sign at my school, and I fell off.
And I have a huge scar right here.
So I guess if I had these, I would've saved myself.
- (FBE) So the spectacles are only compatible with Snapchat.
You can't use what you record for other apps.
What do you think about that?
- Well, then that's a lot of limitations.
You can't do much with it.
- If this meant you could connect it to anything,
that'd actually be kinda cool.
But it's just for Snapchat, and that kinda sucks.
- If you save them, can't you use that save
to send it someplace else?
Most teens, or most people, are smart enough to do that.
- (FBE) Over the last year,
Instagram has started to have similar features to Snapchat.
- It's true.
Instagram's copying Snapchat with the stories.
- The story. Like, come on. It's just so blatant and obvious.
- It wasn't really cool of Instagram
to take exactly the same concept from Snapchat.
With this, I feel like they were like,
"You know what'll really piss off Instagram?
Let's make these sunglasses
and make it that you can only import it straight to Snapchat."
- (FBE) Do you think, with Instagram's features being added,
that Snapchat is in trouble? - I think Snapchat's insecure.
- (cracks up) I think Snapchat's in trouble.
- Do you really need to a camera into some sunglasses
to be able to show that you're winning? You're freaking insecure.
- Snapchat is trying to innovate
so that they can put their company on the edge
and they can compete.
- Competition between businesses is good,
'cause then you get to pick the best one.
- I don't think that these changes mean
that Snapchat is in trouble.
This is just a gimmick that they're trying to use
to differentiate themselves from Instagram.
- I definitely don't think Snapchat's in trouble.
But I don't think it's gonna be there for a while,
especially the Spectacles.
No one's gonna buy them in the next month or so.
And I don't think Snapchat's gonna really hurt.
- I don't know if there's gonna be Snapchat or Instagram
at all in two years, because things are always changing
and growing and evolving.
- (FBE) And finally, with where they are at now technologically,
are the Snapchat Spectacles something that you would want?
- No.
-No.
- I like 'em, you know? I think they're cool.
I could definitely use them.
- I think it's just cool now.
Like, there's not a whole need for more improvement.
- I don't really need them right now.
- I don't think I'd ever want the Snapchat Spectacles.
- I would wait until the future, more technology.
Right now, it's not really my priority.
- If the technology were to improve, maybe I'd buy 'em.
But I would definitely not buy them now.
- I don't think I'd use them every day.
But it'd be pretty fun to mess around with.
- I wouldn't want them, period. - I'd want them later.
Like, if you could put on some Ray-Bans
and have a camera in 'em, tightest thing in the world.
- If I bought one of these Snapchat Spectacles,
that would be a spectacle.
So no. The answer is no.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
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- Thanks so much for having me on the show.
You guys can check me out on ABC on The Real O'Neals,
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