Snap’s First Consumer AR ‘Specs’ Glasses Will Arrive in 2026
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Snap Inc Evan Spiegel wears the Spectacle Augmented Reality glasses in Paris on May 19.
Photographer: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesSnap Inc. plans to launch its first consumer pair of augmented-reality glasses next year, beating a planned release from rival Meta Platforms Inc. by several months.
The new eyewear, called Specs, will be a smaller and lighter version of a device called Spectacles it made available to software developers last year, the company said Tuesday. Those glasses, which are available to developers for $99 per month, run the company’s Snap OS operating system and are controlled using hand gestures, two features that will come to the consumer version.