Snap, the company behind Snapchat, has officially launched its long-awaited Specs AR glasses for a whopping $2,195. Preorders are available now with a $200 refundable deposit, and shipments will begin in fall 2026 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
Specs has fully transparent lenses with waveguide optics, which Snap claims offer a 51‑degree field of view and a 115-inch virtual display. The glasses use dual Snapdragon chips, with Snap describing one as tuned for computer vision and the other for system and graphics tasks. Motion-to-photon latency sits around 7ms to keep AR elements stable in the real world.
The frames are made from a TR90 material often used in eyeglasses and come in two sizes, roughly 47mm and 52mm, with weights of around 132g and 136g. Electrochromic lenses can turn from clear to tinted in about 10 seconds, so users can wear Specs indoors and outdoors.
For input, Specs rely on hand tracking, voice control, and head-based targeting to navigate Snap OS, which runs AR apps, games, a spatial browser, and an AI assistant. In demos, Snap shows Specs translating spoken language into English and displaying the translation visually, helping a user find a nearby restaurant and map out walking directions, allowing a developer to build an app spatially, and more.
Snap says Specs can run for up to 4 hours of mixed use on a charge, with a charging case that brings total usage close to 20 hours throughout the day.
