Jean Luo

It just seems so limiting.

And it requires you to use your hands to hold the phone.

And so we're humans.

We love using our hands for other things.

We want to be able to multitask.

And so this idea that computing requires so much from us that it takes us out of the real world and out of the moment just feels so limiting and unfair in terms of the capacity of technology to change the world.

Quite a long time ago now, I mean, 12 years ago or something like that, we started working on specs and with the idea of making a computer that's totally different, a computer that fits into a pair of glasses, that allows you to put computing in the world around you, that allows you to share those experiences.

So if you're sitting across the table from someone having dinner and you're wearing specs, you can actually build something together or play together or learn together.

And so it takes computing from being this really single player experience that it has been for decades and turns it into something that's shared.

And I think that's really inspiring and exciting to me.

I think that that origin of lenses was so helpful and powerful to Snapchat.

In the early days of Snapchat, people said, why would I take a selfie?

That doesn't make any sense.

But as soon as you gave people a new way to express themselves or vomit a rainbow or put on funny dog ears or whatever, people wanted to share those moments with their friends.

And it became an opportunity to connect or to share that folks otherwise didn't have.

And so that real invitation to create, I think, was so important in the early days of lenses.

you know, in terms of building that foundation to the platform we have today.

Yeah, it's funny.

I just can't turn it off.

You know what I mean?