Snap, formerly known as Snapchat, spun off Specs, the division responsible for its augmented reality (AR) glasses, early this year, and now it’s ready to take pre-orders for the upcoming product, which is also called Specs, just to be confusing.
These are $2,195 standalone AR glasses that don’t require a phone or computer connection to work. They have a see-through transparent display with a 51-degree field of view which apparently looks as big as a 115″ screen would when viewed from about 10 feet away, a camera indicator light, “dual Snapdragon processors”, and a magnetic 5-pin charging interface.
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The glasses are made with a TR90 frame, and come in two sizes: 47mm narrow and 52mm wide. They feature voice and gesture controls, open-ear stereo speakers, six microphones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and they’re prescription-ready.
If you want their case to have cellular data connectivity, you’ll have to pay $2,395 instead, and note that Specs has an exclusive with Verizon for this. So the data will be on Verizon’s network, and data plans will start at $10 per month if you’re already a Verizon customer, or $20 per month if you’re not.
The Specs are “expected to ship” this fall in their Wi-Fi-only version, while Verizon hasn’t even said something that vague yet, so the cellular version might be further away. We’ll let you know when we find out more.