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You Can Finally Buy Snap’s New AR Specs—for $2,150
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Snap—maker of the popular social app Snapchat—has a new pair of augmented-reality smart glasses called Specs.
Key facts
- Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the new glasses at an event during the Augmented World Expo (AWE) tech conference in Long Beach, California
- The Specs also have an AR display that covers a 51-degree field of view in the center of your vision, unlike the Display’s bottom screen
- The look is a much more refined version of Snap’s boxy AR Spectacles the company has made available to developers since 2024
- Snap says it expects the devices to ship this fall in the US, UK, and France
Summary
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the new glasses at an event during the Augmented World Expo (AWE) tech conference in Long Beach, California. The Specs cost $2,195. Snap has not yet said which apps or features will be available on the new Specs. Snap has shown off lots of experiential features in its previous demo units, like fingerpainting in the air, following map directions, or manipulating a 3D model of a globe. “Specs will become meaningful because of the lenses you build,” Spiegel said onstage at AWE.