My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap's new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes. Sitting across the table from a Snap employee wearing the same pair of chunky glasses, I could select a virtual domino wi...
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Snap has spent half a decade working toward its first consumer pair of AR glasses. They're finally here - and they're bold as can be.
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Snap has spent half a decade working toward its first consumer pair of AR glasses. They're finally here - and they're bold as can be.
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My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap's new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes. Sitting across the table from a Snap employee wearing the same pair of chunky glasses, I could select a virtual domino with a pinch and then move my hand to drop it in place, watching the tile snap down in front of us on a real table. It was unlike anything I've tried in other VR headsets or smart glasses - the ability to sit with another person and have a shared digital experience.
Snap really believes in AR glasses. The company has spent more than half a decade developing the technology, producing two generations of glasses that only ever shipped to a small number of developers. The company seems to want to untether itself from the limitations of being just one app in a big store and instead pioneer the next great platform.
Now, Snap is nearly ready to launch its first pair of AR glasses for consumers, the Specs, sometime this fall. That suggests Snap thinks these meet its vision well enough for regular people to enjoy using the $2,195 glasses. They're certainly full of big ideas. But after an afternoon of testing at Snap's offices this week, I'm skeptical of whether they'll be fully ready for primetime.
The Specs are big, black, bold glasses that come in two lens sizes, 47mm and 52mm. Part of why they're so bold is almost certainly to make a statement - there's no mistaking these for a regular pair of glasses, like you might with Meta's Ray-Bans. (They're a little too conspicuous for me personally; my glasses style is squarely "Elder Millennial Who Shops At Warby Parker.") But they're also so chunky because they house all the hardware necessary to let the Specs function as a standalone computer, meaning they don't need to be tethered to a phone, compute puck, or external battery.
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