Snap Inc. is releasing its fifth-generation Spectacles exclusively to developers, hoping to foster an AR ecosystem through paid access and a focus on lens creation.
Snap’s fifth-generation Spectacles have a richer, more immersive display. Using them feels snappier. They last longer on a charge. Those are exactly the kinds of upgrades you’d expect from a product line that’s technically eight years old. But the market for Spectacles — and AR glasses in general — still feels as nascent as ever. Snap has an idea for what could change that: developers. These new Spectacles, announced Tuesday at Snap’s annual Partner Summit in Los Angeles, aren’t being sold.
More perplexingly, Snap’s own demos emphasized this fact; a golfing simulator I tried was constrained to a frustratingly small area of the real world around me. Ultimately, this limited field of view makes augmented reality considerably less engaging than the real world, which, in turn, makes putting a 226-gram pair of smart glasses on your face feel unnecessary. Snap has invested a lot into improving the hardware of Spectacles.
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