Snap Specs

So as I watched Evan’s keynote at AWE 2026, it’s clear he’s a fan of the Steve Jobs showmanship, and aimed for this to be Snap’s own personal iPhone moment — defining a new category of product and doing so with flair. I spoke to Russell about the idea of glasses as the next category and he provided a little more detail. “We’ve seen these different shifts in computing happen, and we see a shift is coming,” Patton stated. “Going forward, it’s going to be that shift from phones to glasses, and I think it’s not just taking the apps that are on our phones and putting them into glasses.” Instead, he

Revealed for the first time on stage at the AWE 2026 show by Snap founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Specs bring the exciting vision teased by products like the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung Galaxy XR, and RayNeo X3 Pro into a technically astonishing pair of glasses. These standalone AR glasses come in two sizes, 47mm and 52mm, and are powered by a pair of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. One drives the Lens apps and AR experiences, and the other drives computer vision. Specs use waveguide technology to put a full, 16-million color display in front of your eyes, which will look like a 24-inch monitor wh

With the price of the Snap glasses rumored to be more than $2,000, we wanted to ask you how much you'd pay for the new specs.

It's not a foregone conclusion that Speigel will reveal the new Snap Specs today, but the timing would line up nicely. Last year at AWE 2025, Spiegel talked up Snap's 5th-generation standalone AR glasses and announced that the company had plans for a consumer model called "Specs" in 2026. Spiegel promised this consumer version of the wearable would be lighter with a smaller-form-factor. He said they would have "a fraction of the weight, with a ton more capability." If Speigel doesn't reveal any hardware today, he could spend time talking about how the company is pushing forward with what it ca