The Snapbot, a yellow Minion-shaped vending machine, has popped up in Venice Beach, CA.
Snapbot is selling Snapchat's Spectacles, a $130 pair of glasses with a Snapchat-ready camera built-in.
Currently, there is only one bot in Venice Beach, CA. The Los Angeles-based company plans to add more bots to the Bot Map (at the bottom of the page). The vending machines will appear on the map 24 hours before they show up at a location IRL.
Spectacles are currently only available for sale through Snapbots.
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Here's what it's like to buy the Spectacles from the bot.
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The bot features a screen with a special filters that shows you what the Spectacles will look like on you.
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You can unlock that Spectacles filter on Snapchat for 24 hours by snapping the QR code here.
People are already bidding between $553 and $1,500 for the Spectacles on eBay.
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Here's what the Spectacles look like IRL.
To start recording, you need to press a button on top of the camera built into the lenses. The ring around the camera will light-up when you start filming.
They come with a special charging case.
One full charge equals about 100 10-second Snaps.
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And also with a Ghostface Chillah-shaped microfiber cloth.
The glasses film in a format called "circular video."
To look a Spectacles snap, you can tilt your phone to watch the video in landscape and vertical orientations.
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