Snap announced Specs on June 16. Preorders opened that same day. Your deposit buys the right to receive Specs this fall when production ships.
The price is $2,195. That’s not a typo. AR glasses from consumer brands cost this much right now if you want real capability. These are standalone. You don’t need a phone tethered to them.
Specs weigh between 132 and 136 grams depending on frame size. Snap made them from Swiss TR90 polymer. The field of view is 51 degrees. Battery lasts up to four hours. The display shows 16 million colors. Motion-to-photon latency is 7 milliseconds, which Snap says is the lowest publicly claimed for a 6DoF XR product. If you know what that means, you already care about latency numbers.
These aren’t consumer AR glasses like Meta Ray-Bans. Those let you take photos and record video. Specs are meant to be wearable computing. You interact with apps running on the device, not just capture through them.
Snap is shipping to the US, UK and France first. Other regions come later. The company built two frame sizes because people have different head shapes. That attention to fit matters when glasses sit on your face for hours.
The preorder deposit is $200 and refundable. The full $2,195 comes due when it’s time to ship. Snap is targeting fall, but fall is broad. Could be September. Could be November. “This fall” in tech language means “sometime in the next five months.”
This is the sixth generation of Snapchat Spectacles hardware. Previous versions were novelty devices for creators building Lens filters. Specs is the first generation Snap is selling to regular people who just want AR glasses.
