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Snap Specs

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**Podcast:** Tech Brew Ride Home

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Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Wednesday, June 17, 2026 I'm Brian McCullough Today, Snap unveiled its standalone Specs AR glasses Google rolled out Android 17 and Wear OS 7 Trump officials mauled equity stakes in AI firms once again Apple's camera AirPods slipped to 2027 and TikTok is drowning in AI slop Here's what you missed today in the world of tech

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Specs, its first fully standalone AR glasses which have a 51 degree field of view set to ship for this fall in the US, the UK, and France Quoting The Verge Specs, which Snap describes as a wearable computer built into see-through augmented reality glasses will cost $2,195 You can pre-order a pair of Specs now at Specs.com with a $200 refundable deposit

And Snap says they're expected to ship this fall in the US, UK, and France This is a big moment for Snap The company made a big entry into smart glasses with its original spectacles in 2016 and the company has been toiling away on non-public AR versions of spectacles over the past few years CEO Evan Spiegel promised the company would launch consumer AR glasses in 2026 and even turned its smart glasses team into a separate business The company says that Specs are fully standalone with no puck and no tether

which is perhaps a jab at Apple's Vision Pro which is tethered to a separate battery pack They'll be offered in two sizes a 47mm model weighing 132 grams and a 52mm model weighing 136 grams and will have removable inserts that Snap says will support a wide range of prescriptions You probably won't mistake Specs with their wide, bold frames for any of Meta's smart glasses Snap clearly picked a design that it wants to stand out They're not my style

I don't think I can pull off the snow goggles but fashionable look, though maybe Johnny Ive might like them They hav...

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