Snap Inc., developer of the social media platform Snapchat, recently unveiled the fifth generation of its Spectacles AR headset at SPS 2024. The first thing you'll notice about the Spectacles 5 is ...

WAILEA, Hawaii — Nobody's ever going to confuse me with Willie Mosconi or Minnesota Fats, but with the help of Snap's 5th generation Spectacles, I nearly sank a shot on a pool table that would ...

He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Snap’s fifth-generation Spectacles have a richer, more immersive display. Using them feels snappier. They last longer on a charge.

Snap announced the fifth generation of Spectacles, its standalone AR glasses. Spectacles are powered by Snap OS and are available as part of the Spectacles Developer Program for $99 per month with ...

It’s only been around six months since Snap released the fifth generation of Spectacles, its AR glasses for developers, and the company is already enhancing its latest pair with new Lenses and ...

Snap is pitching its new augmented reality glasses as a fun way for you to feel closer to your friends. If only the shades looked a little more friendly themselves. Snap released a few more ...

When Snap debuted Spectacles, it took an unusual route for distribution. Instead of making them readily available in stories, it distributed them via robot vending machine. Not only that ...

He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Snap’s new Spectacles glasses are its most ambitious yet. But there’s a big catch: you can’t buy them. On Thursday ...

Snap, the company behind the Snapchat social network, has been quietly working on AR glasses for the last several months, and this week, the developer-only AR Spectacles were updated with some new ...

I got the chance to try out Snap's new developers-only Spectacles. From piano lessons to interactive video calls, the intelligent glasses pack a lot of fun features into a frame that's much ...

But Spectacles didn’t do AR until 2021, when Snap unveiled a fourth-generation version—simply called “the new Spectacles”—that was more experiment than product. Instead of being for sale ...

The first edition of Spectacles launched in 2016, but the effort has not increased revenue for Snap, whose business relies on selling digital advertising. Larger rivals are also racing to advance AR.