{"id":755125,"date":"2026-06-23T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755125\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:37:11","slug":"snap-unveils-2195-ar-glasses-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755125\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap unveils $2,195 AR glasses : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is betting that augmented reality glasses could become the next major computing device.<\/p>\n

The company this week officially launched new augmented reality glasses called Specs<\/a>, which project digital information directly into a user’s field of vision. The glasses can display maps, notifications, games and AI-powered assistance. They will cost $2,195.<\/p>\n

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Joanna Stern, a tech journalist and editor-in-chief of the New Things newsletter, told Morning Edition that computing device concepts, such as augmented reality glasses, have long been a goal for the tech industry. Companies including Meta, Apple and Google are also investing heavily in similar technology as they look beyond smartphones.<\/p>\n

“Every tech company right now is trying to work on this future,” Stern told NPR’s Steve Inskeep . “They all believe there’s another type of device, another type of gadget that’s going to be the future of computing, and many of them believe glasses is it.”<\/p>\n

Stern also noted the irony of the companies that helped make smartphones indispensable now promoting devices designed to pull users away from them.<\/p>\n

The digital version of this interview was written by Majd Al-Waheidi and edited by Treye Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SPECS exhibit is seen at AWE 2026 at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center on June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-755125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}