Specs Augmented Reality Glasses

A few tech specs for those who don't want to read through the announcement:

* 51 degree field of view. Stated as being like you're working at a 24" monitor.

* 4 hours of mixed-use battery life with the case holding another 20 hours

* 132/136 grams depending on size

* Supports prescription lenses, easily interchangeable/swappable

Priced at $2195 w/ $200 deposit, arrival expected in Fall.

>Every important computing platform has been defined by what people built with it. The PC became meaningful because developers built software. The web became meaningful because developers built websites. Smartphones became meaningful because developers built apps. We believe augmented reality will be no different.

At a $2195 price point, it just won't be possible to have an ecosystem. All the other platforms mentioned were orders of magnitude cheaper. That being said, I do think AR has real utility, but the price discovery will take a while

Seeing augmented reality/technology/ads all day through my glasses sounds like a version of hell to me

I'm happy with my XReal one Pro. Wired, dumb, no way to lock me into an ecosystem like when I bought Oculus Quest and then had to deal with Facebook's bullshit

Did I mention much cheaper?

I think they're chasing the wrong dream. Most of the use cases they're proposing won't suffer much from being attached to a battery/processing puck, and in some cases being attached to a laptop. e.g. I'm not watching a movie while walking down the sidewalk. It would be nice to just sit on a comfy sofa someplace my laptop isn't and watch a movie, but not pay-an-extra-$1800 nice. especially when there are similar devices available where you could buy the device and a dedicated laptop to power it for less.

"Our new waveguide uses billions of invisibly small nanostructures, so small that more than 10,000 can fit on the tip of a single hair. SPECS use the same advanced technology found in Boeing 787 Dreamliner windows, so the electrochromic lenses gently shift from clear to tinted in just 10 seconds."

This sounds slightly like Texas Instruments DLP (digital light processing) in that there's something actually physically moving. Does anyone have any more info about what this actually is?

Congrats to the Specs team for launch. Specs have come a long way since cimagine and looksery, spectacles days. And kudos to Snap for keep pushing.

- The price is actually competitive. They want to compete with Meta's Orion. However the product is ... lacking. None of the demos actually show-cased the dual wavelength display. The current usecases are available today at Meta Rayban Display for more cheaper and more polish.

- Dual snapdragon, and i assume one is dedicated to CV alg / scene-understanding/slam, without an external puck, i wonder how the thermal performance would look like.

- Looks very ugly, C'mon. This is the same team that desigend the original spectacle? where is Evan?

- I liked the Los Angeles text on the side. well-done.

> Today, SPECS are available for pre-order at SPECS.COM for $2,195, with a $200 refundable deposit.

Dayum.

I do buy into the AR glasses future. They’re insanely cool tech. Meta makes a great one.

Easily beats the "screen extension" monitors you see at every coworking friendly cafe.

Looks promising!

This but cut out a hole for the camera and <$50 https://www.skmproducts.com/product/original-tv-hat/ :^)

they are expensive enough that they might be useful

This actually might work.

Out of all the possible permutations of display/sensors/processing for AR, I would like to see eyewear with just a Bluetooth-like display and camera/mic. Let me use the phone or watch for all processing. Bonus points for eye tracking and body position sensors. Make the camera tethered if you must and somehow integrate it with my clothes.

Off course, this would mean less lock-in for everybody and we can't have that.

The way forward is minimalistic smart hardware, like Meta's Raybans, until battery, optics and compute allow us truly miniaturized AR heasets. For now the price is too high and the utility too narrow to matter.

lol

Gotta love that no matter how much the hardware advances, the optimistic, advertised abilities of AR have significantly reduced over time.

4 hours of use. To what, do turn by turn navigation? Play that stupid game that's just an escape room but poorly implemented?

Is that really all you offer?

AR has yet to produce any value for anybody. Google failed, Apple failed, Meta basically built a creeper spy cam. These may be the most advanced devices to date, but hardware hasn't been the limitation for a long time. There's just no application that's more useful than just looking at your phone.