Snap introduced snap specs at Augmented World Expo 2026, unveiling SPECS as its new augmented reality glasses. The company says the device is fully standalone, with no puck and no tether, and that it is meant to move AI assistance, work tools, entertainment, and shared experiences into the world around the wearer.
Evan Spiegel is tied to the company’s bet on a post-smartphone future. Snap has said it has spent more than a decade building toward computers that can understand the world the way people do.
Spiegel's Post-Smartphone Bet
“Today at Augmented World Expo 2026, we introduced SPECS, our new augmented reality glasses.”
“We built SPECS to bring AI assistance, work tools, entertainment, and shared experiences into the world around us, helping people create, connect, learn, and get things done while staying present.”
That framing puts the device between two categories Snap says are already on the market. Current AI glasses are lightweight but limited. Headsets are powerful but can feel isolating and cumbersome.
Two Sizes, One Wearable
SPECS come in 47 mm and 52 mm sizes. The 47 mm model weighs 132 grams, and the 52 mm model weighs 136 grams. That keeps the hardware within a range Snap can present as wearable for hours rather than as a bulkier headset that users would treat like a stationary device.
Removable inserts support a wide range of prescriptions. That gives the product a practical route for wearers who need vision correction, without changing the basic form factor Snap is pushing.
Display And Lens Details
The display system uses proprietary liquid crystal on silicon technology. Snap says it delivers a 51-degree field of view and 16 million colors, and it says the image can feel like a 24-inch desktop monitor when working or a 115-inch home cinema screen placed about 10 feet away when watching a movie.
The new waveguide uses billions of invisibly small nanostructures, and Snap says more than 10,000 of them can fit on the tip of a single hair. The electrochromic lenses shift from clear to tinted in 10 seconds, and the same advanced technology appears in Boeing 787 Dreamliner windows.
The unresolved question is pricing. Snap has laid out the hardware, the optical system, and the product’s intended use, but it has not paired those details with the cost buyers will actually face.
