French president Emmanuel Macron wears Snapchat's spectacle Augmented Reality glasses during the inauguration of the group's headquarters in France on May 19, 2025 in Paris. — AFP
Snap Inc plans to launch its first consumer pair of augmented-reality glasses next year, beating a planned release from rival Meta Platforms Inc by several months.
The new eyewear, called Specs, will be a smaller and lighter version of a device called Spectacles it made available to software developers last year, the company said Tuesday. Those glasses, which are available to developers for US$99 (RM419) per month, run the company’s Snap OS operating system and are controlled using hand gestures, two features that will come to the consumer version.
