If you are a Snapchat user, you may have heard of
the Snapchat eyeglasses that include a little camera so
that you can instantaneously send a message to friends
with pictures of what you're looking at.
Well, if you're a passenger on a Royal Caribbean
Line journey, you might soon be able to use a diving
mask that has been specially designed to send
Snapchat photos.
The cruise line created prototypes of the mask,
which allows shooting up to 30 minutes of 10-second
footage. They call it the SeaSeeker mask and say it
"transforms Snapchat spectacles into underwater goggles." All the Snapchat videos recorded with it can
be seen on YouTube.
We're unclear how the technology works (since
radio waves don't pass well through water), but they
claim that users will be able to livestream videos from
up to 150 feet (46m) deep.
The SeaSeeker mask is being tested in Mexico
at the moment, and the adventures of free diver
Ashleigh Baird in and around the Blue Holes are
being live-streamed on the @RoyalCaribbean account
as part of their #SeekDeeper campaign.