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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by whitecarpet on Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:53AM (#12571387)
Another huge innovation which is more about software than hardware is the new circular video format: you can rotate your phone and the video keeps its orientation.

Quite impressive, you have to see it in action:

https://twitter.com/ow/status/779592486461313025

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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by martinko on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:18PM (#12571477)
A significant part of the recorded video in that demo is always off screen. If you fit it to the screen, it will be circular. This doesnt really seem to solve anything.
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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by bennettfeely on Sunday September 25, 2016 @01:55AM (#12574173)
Little humble brag, but here is a CodePen demo I made a little more than a year ago with a similar idea in mind:

http://codepen.io/bennettfeely/details/pjgrRL?preview_height...

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Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles by PercussusVII on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:40PM (#12571567)
Why is this innovative? Can't you just zoom in the video to get the same effect
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