03 Nov A First Look at Snap’s New Specs [Lowpass]
By Janko Roettgers
October 29, 2026| There’s been a flurry of AR, VR and mixed reality device announcements recently, with companies like Meta, Google and Snap all gearing up to ship the next generation of spatial computing devices to consumers.
Just yesterday, Google and Xreal announced that the Xreal Aura glasses, which are the first to bring Android XR to a glasses-like device, will start shipping by mid-November for $1099 and up. Meta’s VR glasses, which were first announced at Meta Connect in September, are slated to ship early next year for $1300. And Snap has plans to ship its Specs AR glasses before the end of the year for $2195.
These three devices use vastly different display technologies, but they’re arguably all built with similar ideas in mind: Instead of zeroing in on one relatively narrow use case (say enterprise AR, or VR gaming), they’re trying to solve many different problems at the same time, with a big one being the future of entertainment.
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