Snap is finally introducing augmented reality glasses to the public. Specs, which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built on true invisible glass,” will cost $2,195. You can pre-order the Specs now at specs.com for a $200 refundable deposit, and Snap says it’s expected to ship “this fall” in the US, UK, and France.
This is a big moment for Snap: The company got big into smart glasses with its original Spectacles in 2016, and the company has been hard at work on non-public AR versions of Spectacles for the past few years. CEO Evan Spiegel has promised the company will launch consumer AR glasses by 2026 and even spun off its smart glasses group into a separate business.
The company says the Specs are “completely independent, puck-free and tether-free.” (Which is probably a jab at Apple’s Vision Pro, which is tied to a separate battery pack.) They’ll be offered in two sizes, a 47mm model weighing 132g and a 52mm model weighing 136g, and they’ll have removable inserts that Snap says will support “many types of instructions.”
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You probably won’t mistake the specs, with their wide, bold frames, for any of the Meta’s smart glasses – Snap has clearly chosen a design that wants to stand out. (They’re not my style – I don’t think I can pull off “snow glasses, but fashionable” – although maybe Jony Ive might like them.) They have visible light and infrared cameras, and while Specs is recording, a small LED bar will light up between the glasses.
Both lenses will be able to show you content, and Snap says its display system is powered by “liquid crystal proprietary silicon technology” that offers a 51-degree field of view and can display 16 million colors. The lenses can also go from clear to tinted in 10 seconds, Snap says.
Specs have two Snapdragon processors on board, and while Snap doesn’t specify which ones, the company says one is focused on “computer vision” while the other is focused on using AR Lenses. “Together, they enable fast hand tracking, low latency, and responsive interactions that help digital content feel embedded in the real world,” Snap said.
You can also expect up to four hours of battery life per charge, which Snap touts with features like “audio and video playback, AI assistance, Bluetooth notifications, and more.” Specs comes with a charging case that Snap says will provide four charges for a total of 20 hours of battery life. During his keynote speech at the AWE 2026 conference, CEO Evan Spiegel noted that you can charge the Specs with a cable that runs through a magnet on the side of the glasses — and if you connect the other end of that cable to something like a phone, computer, or gaming device, you can stream content from those devices and display it on your Specs.
The details would be interesting, but we haven’t tried it ourselves yet, so we can’t vouch for what it’s like to use it on a day-to-day basis. And we don’t know how the specs actually hold up as a product that sits between something like Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, which have been hit, and the Vision Pro, which hasn’t.
Today, there are more smart glasses than when Snap first introduced Spectacles. The new Specs launch a year after Meta’s smart glasses with a single display, although Meta has not publicly presented AR glasses yet despite showing a model that did not sell in 2024. And as my colleague Victoria Song recently wrote, most smart glasses are a no-brainer, not to mention the problem that there are growing privacy concerns about smart glasses. Despite all that, Snap is pushing ahead with the launch specs, so we’ll see how they fare when they’re finally available.
Update, June 16: More details about the charging cable.
Correction, June 16: Meta has yet to publicly launch AR glasses.
