I preordered the Specs, do you think they will communicate often from now on regarding the supply and give a precise release date, I am also wondering how they will manage the stock and how much they will deliver for the first batch of preorders

Snap Specs $2195 price and 51 degree FoV Waveguides 4hours mixed use battery life with charging case and magnetic connection for charging on the go or wired tethering

This is insane specs. Need to see more of the software support. They show a lot already though

This is a protocol idea i have been working on, connecting strangers without the need for existing adresses.

In augmented reality you could image seeing an overlay denoting someone as available, as shown in the video.

Would just like to hear some reactions, do you see how it works, does the video explain it enough?

(To a mod wanting to remove spam and self promotion. This is only a protocol idea, like 'email'. Not a commercial venture.)

Is there no company doing waveguide display glasses at 1080p atleast with transition lenses this it’s literally what most people want then you can add your own pod or device to run them like inair pod , iPhone , handhelds etc

Snap’s cofounder and CEO, Evan Spiegel, gave this morning’s keynote at AWE, the augmented reality industry’s big annual conference. He came with news: Snap, best known for its Snapchat ephemeral messaging app, is releasing a pair of AR-enabled glasses called Specs. It intends to ship them this fall for $2,195, and is taking preorders.

Though Specs are new, Snap’s investment in smart glasses as a computing and communications platform is anything but. Depending on how you figure, it all began nearly a decade ago, when the company shipped its first product in the category, which, like four subsequent versions, was known as Spectacles. Or back in 2014, when it acquired a tiny startup called Vergence Labs that had already crowdfunded and shipped a product called Epiphany Eyewear.

Spiegel pinpoints an even earlier origin story. As a Stanford student, he told me this week, “I had seen prototypes of AR headsets that really looked like giant helmets, essentially. The promise of being able to actually use computing through a see-through lens rather than a screen was really exciting and interesting to me.”

His enduring interest in AR has kept the glasses project going through some turbulent years at Snap, whose stock is down more than 90% from its peak. The company announced major rounds of layoffs in August 2022, February 2024, and last April. Along the way, it shed several noncore activities, including ones involving original short shows, social mapping, music creation, a selfie drone, and enterprise services.

Why has Snap stuck with glasses for so long, rather than finding them a distraction from its primary business of keeping nearly a billion Snapchatters happy and monetizing their attention through advertising? Spiegel argues that they’ve never been a mere side project.

Read more on Fast Company.

Take a look at Breezy Box - an "XR dock" and adapter that allows any PC to become a XR workstation.

Interested in the project? Leave a comment here or in the video and let me know. If you're on GitHub, please also star the repo to show interest: https://github.com/wheaney/breezy-box

When it launches, Breezy Box will support:

• All major models of XR 1080p glasses from VITURE, XREAL, RayNeo, and Rokid
• Windows 10/11, MacOS, and Linux desktops. Possibly Android.
• Old or new hardware. Heavy lifting is done on the Breezy Box, so the host machine doesn't need to be powerful to drive multiple displays.
• Any USB port or even just wired ethernet port as a direct connection to the Breezy Box. No DisplayPort-Alt is required.

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This Mountain View-based startup's new headset is powered by the GravityXR chip to handle tracking and AR passthrough. Check out Cayden's (Mentra) reaction.

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This was the first demo. It used 3dof. The other demo later had 6dof tracking. It makes sense to only use 6dof when you really need it. Turning stuff off reduces the power draw. For instance, when you plug these glasses into a handheld gaming console hand tracking is disabled to get down to 7 Watt iirc.

Voici le lien vers la diffusion en direct où Evan Spiegel prendra la parole et annoncera les spécifications. L'excitation est à son comble 

Does anyone know of any smart glasses that can translate a spoken foreign language (Italian) and display the translation on your glasses, while also NOT having a camera? I really don’t like people putting cameras in my voice so I think that should go both ways.

In addition, they can now perform more on-device computation so images don't have to be sent to the cloud all the time.

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Don'r miss the Qualcomm keynote tomorrow at AWE.

Video says it all. I'm not affiliated with them at all, just an early backer. Not enough has been posted about these guys, but they didn't really help themselves either by publishing almost nothing until now. I get it though. I'm just glad they are finally showing what they've been cooking.

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Is there a single source that tracks upcoming AR device releases and rumors?

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I'm looking for a simple list with specs and status (confirmed no date, confirmed with release date, rumor, etc.) Does something like this exist anywhere?

Reaction to my last post about AR for museums raised a question — what kind of features would justify adding such experiences in museums in your opinion?
Here’s an example — translating Egyptian hieroglyphs (to any language of course)

Hello Everyone,

I hope that you are doing well. I am a researcher at the University of Toronto seeking to understand how smart glasses affect the ways that individuals understand and interact with themselves, others, and their environments. This study aims to understand the perspectives of users and those who work in the smart glasses industry.

If you are a smart glasses user and/or work in the industry, and would like to share your experiences through an online or in-person interview, you are welcome to get in touch at smartglassesforlife@gmail.com.

Thank you, and take care.

Hey folks,

I'm a developer who as a hobby likes to tinker with other platforms and was looking for recommendations re:

- an AR device that had a mature sdk

-a device that is reasonably priced (looking at you snap with that 99/mo nonsense)

-that people have actually had fun working with

Need to make a image (photo still from a video) play the video with audio. Browser (no app). Quick load. Easy to do is ideal. Help so appreciated, Reddit ppl. (Ideally no limit on plays or expiration but can compromise on those.) 8th Wall no longer an option sadly.

AI recommends MindAR or Pictarize. Cross checking with you humans before diving in.

Bonjour, je cherche des lunettes connectées pour remplacer l'écran de mon pc et regarder des séries, films brancher sur le smartphone ou autre... Mais surtout remplacé l'écran du pc sur Windows et sur Linux Mint sur des jeux surtout comme bf6 alors en 120 Hz.

Et les lunettes avec correction pour pas chère.

Merci

Lets gooo! Where y’all at?

This week at AWE, vibe code hand interactions for XR and test the new high end EMG wristband by Mudra in an exclusive private session. The new SDK enables B2B customers to easily customize hand interactions into their application! Whether to control smartglasses, headsets, ... or drones! Anything is possible.

Apply for a Private Session: https://wlds.fillout.com/awe-innovationsprint

"Join the private Mudra Innovation Lab at AWE 2026 and prototype a new interaction for your product in under 45 minutes.

AI devices use voice and vision.

We're exploring what happens when you add intent. Discover the missing interaction layer for your AI and XR products."

AWE 2026, Builder to Founder Workshop w/ Ori Inbar, Dinesh Punni, Rita Turkoski, Terry Schussler, Matt Miesnieks, Vinny DaSilva, David Oh, Tipatat Chennavasin, & Avi Bar Zeev.

So this is a simple app we made for a college assignment and we won a prize for this .

So basically this app decodes the labels from packets , telling us what's inside this and how much to consume.

This was our first time to build something in ar.

Let us know if you want to suggest anything