Is this the future of cooking? Amazing video shows how Snapchat’s upcoming augmented reality glasses can guide you through every recipe
- A new video shows someone using Snap Spectacles to help bake cookies
- The AR glasses show ingredient, timers and temperatures in the display
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The future of cooking has been revealed in a new video that shows how augmented reality (AR) glasses can guide even the worst of cooks into making the perfect dish.
Creative Technologist Lauren Cason created a short clip of her making peanut butter caramel cookies in an at-home kitchen.
Strapped with a pair of Snap’s Next Generation Spectacles, Cason is able to see ingredient amounts hover over the flour, milk, butter and eggs sprawled out on the counter.
A look to the stove and a timer appears over a pot and the oven temperature is shown in white over the door.
And for a even more hands-free experience, the entire recipe appears on the wooden cabinets – allowing them to continue mixing and baking.
The video was recorded using Spectacles. The AR glasses show ingredient amounts needed for the recipe above the food items
The Next Generation Spectacles have yet to be released to the masses and are only available to developers. But its previous generation cost $380.
The video shows Cason working in the kitchen with the help of AR glasses that displays information in specific areas – such as cooking temperature at the oven and a countdown time over the pot on the stove.
‘I’ve seen a lot of cooking or baking demos in AR, and as someone who bakes a lot, they never quite felt like something I would use,’ Cason shared on her website.
‘I don’t want something that is gamifying my baking experience, I don’t want recipes to be permanently anchored to particular locations the way a book would be, and I don’t want 3D pie visualizations.
‘I want the least amount of pixels being rendered in my visual field that in turn reduce the most friction in the process.’
The Spectacles and program created by Cason is a dream for beginner cooks, but wearing the glasses might not be ideal for most people.
The video was shared on Twitter, where users flocked to share their excitement about the technology.
Paul Martin tweeted: ‘This is the first app I’ll download on Apple glass!!’
And another Twitter user shared: ‘Really amazing. I love it!’
The developer also designed the program to include timers for things cooking on the stove
The oven temperature is shown in white over the door, allowing cooks to continue working on their dish
Creative Technologist Lauren Cason created the short clip that depicts her making peanut butter caramel cookies in an at-home kitchen
However, Snaps device appear to be lightweight and sit nicely on the face compared to bulky VR headsets.
The company unveiled the glasses in 2021, which are its first to feature augmented reality (AR).
While the glasses are not for sale, MailOnline’s Shivali Best visited Snap’s offices in London this week to test them out herself.
READ MORE: Google testing AR glasses that will incorporate Maps
The tech giant announced that a small group of select ‘trusted’ testers and company employees will begin to use the new augmented reality devices
And by Snap’s estimations, it might not be long before the smart glasses become the norm, with the tech giant estimating they will become as popular as smartphones ‘within five to ten years.’
Snap is probably best known for its Face Lenses (who can forget the flower crown and animal ears that took over social media in 2016?), but actually has a huge range of AR experiences available.
These include 3D effects, World Lenses that bring objects to life around you, and Connected Lenses that allow multiple users to explore AR experiences together in real time.
While these lenses are currently accessed through the Snapchat smartphone app, the next generation Spectacles allow content creators to overlay these Lenses directly on to the real world.
And this is what Cason did for her baking project.
‘One of the things that’s really cool about the Spectacles is that you can prototype stuff with them very quickly,’ Cason said a 2021 interview with The Spoon.
‘So we worked on the pie, and then I spent the afternoon putting the prototype together, and I made a video.’
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