Marketing
May 3, 2018
Snapchat Spectacles V2 were released this week. Image credit: Snap
By Danny Parisi
Social media platform Snapchat has relaunched its only physical product, the video-taking eyewear called Spectacles. But after the first iteration was widely viewed as a flop, what purpose will the revamped glasses serve?
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