Overview
- Snap opened pre-orders with a $200 refundable deposit and launched an iOS preview of SPECS Intelligence on Wednesday while shipping remains set for later this fall and public demos start Oct. 1 at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles.
- The SPECS glasses start at $2,195 and can be bundled with a cellular-connected Charging/Connected Case in partnership with Verizon for $2,395, with monthly data plans starting at $10 for Verizon customers and $20 for non-Verizon customers.
- SPECS Intelligence is an 'anticipatory' AI that builds personal context from apps users choose to connect, surfaces suggestions before being prompted, and runs across iPhone, Mac and the SPECS glasses with a Mac early-access program by invitation.
- Snap detailed hardware specs including dual displays, twin Snapdragon chips, a roughly four-hour battery per charge (about 20 hours with the case), a 51-degree field of view and electrochromic lenses for tinting.
- Snap emphasized privacy and enterprise use by saying personal content connected to SPECS Intelligence won’t train Snap’s models, Snap staff cannot view that content, processing combines on-device work with secure cloud hosting, and the company disclosed partnerships with Salesforce, NVIDIA and AWS for workplace workflows.