Snap finally drops $2,195 Specs: A decade of work for bulky goggles?
After ten years of cooking up hardware, Snap has unveiled its latest Specs. It’s a brave move to ask for two grand for a pair of glasses that look like they belong in a welding shop, but hey, at least you don't need a backpack full of wires anymore.
The hardware inside Specs relies on dual Snapdragon chips to handle all processing locally, avoiding the dreaded external puck that makes competitors look like science projects. These frames weigh in between 132 and 136 grams, a significant jump from the 50-gram Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, yet they avoid the neck-straining bulk of the Apple Vision Pro.
Users get a 51-degree field of view with 16 million colors, designed for gaming via the EyeConnect feature or recording first-person video that triggers an onboard LED to warn bystanders. With a four-hour standalone battery life—extending to 20 hours with the charging case—the device aims to blend digital tasks with reality, backed by a contextual AI assistant that narrates the user's surroundings.
Pre-orders are now live for a $200 deposit, with initial shipping slated for the US, UK, and France later this autumn, marking the first time Snap has pushed a consumer-grade wearable since 2019.
Paying more than two thousand dollars to be a walking, talking, recording billboard for a social media app is certainly a choice. Whether this finally brings AR into the mainstream or just serves as a very expensive pair of high-tech safety goggles for tech enthusiasts remains the big question.
Source: TechCrunch
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