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Is this the future of cooking? Awesome video shows how Snapchat’s upcoming augmented reality glasses can walk you through each recipe
The future of cooking has been revealed in a new video showing how augmented reality (AR) glasses can guide even the worst chefs in creating the perfect dish.
Creative Technologist Lauren Cason made a short clip of her making peanut butter caramel cookies in a home kitchen.
Strapped on with Snap’s Next Generation goggles, Cason can see the quantities of ingredients floating above the flour, milk, butter, and eggs sprawled on the counter.
A view of the stove and timer appear over a pan and the oven temperature is displayed in white above the door.
And for an even more hands-free experience, the whole recipe appears on the wooden cabinets – so they can keep mixing and baking.
The video was shot with Spectacles. The AR glasses show the ingredient quantities 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 the previous generation cost $380.
The video shows Cason working in the kitchen using AR glasses that display information in specific areas, such as the cooking temperature in the oven and a countdown over the pan on the stove.
“I’ve seen a lot of cooking or baking demos in AR, and as someone who bakes a lot, they never really felt like something I would use,” Cason told of her website.
“I don’t want anything to gamify my baking experience, I don’t want recipes permanently anchored to certain locations like a book would be, and I don’t want 3D pie visualizations.”
“I want as few pixels as possible to appear in my field of view which in turn reduces the most friction in the process.”
The Spectacles and Cason’s program are a budding chef’s dream, but wearing glasses may 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 will download on Apple Glass!!”
And another Twitter user shared, “Really awesome. I love it!’
The developer also designed the program to include timers for things cooking on the stove
The oven temperature is displayed in white above the door, allowing chefs to continue working on their dish
Creative Technologist Lauren Cason created the short clip showing her making peanut butter caramel cookies in a home kitchen
However, the Snaps device appears lightweight and sits nicely on the face compared to bulky VR headsets.
The company unveiled the glasses in 2021, the first with augmented reality (AR).
Although the glasses are not for sale, MailOnline’s Shivali Best visited Snap’s London offices this week to test them out for himself.
And according to Snap estimates, it won’t be long before smart glasses become the norm, with the tech giant estimating that they will become as popular as smartphones “within five to 10 years”.
Snap is probably best known for its facial lenses (who can forget the floral crown and animal ears that took over social media in 2016?), but it actually has a huge range of AR experiences available.
These include 3D effects, world lenses that bring objects around you to life, and connected lenses that allow multiple users to explore AR experiences together in real time.
While these lenses are currently accessible through the Snapchat smartphone app, the next-generation Spectacles will allow content creators to superimpose these lenses directly on 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 it really quickly,” Cason said in a 2021 interview with The spoon.
“So we worked on the cake, and then I spent the afternoon putting together the prototype and making a video.”