{"id":706072,"date":"2026-06-15T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706072\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:11:09","slug":"snap-teases-next-gen-specs-ar-glasses-ahead-of-june-16th-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706072\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap Teases Next-gen ‘Specs’ AR Glasses Ahead of June 16th Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snapchat parent Snap is nearing the long-awaited reveal of Specs, its next pair of AR glasses, as the company says we should keep our eyes peeled come June 16th.<\/p>\n

Specs Inc, the company\u2019s new XR subsidiary, showed off a (very) brief glimpse of the device via Instagram on Friday, which notably included \u201c06.16\u201d at the end. <\/p>\n

The company additionally confirmed it\u2019s publicly revealing the device on the June 16th at Augmented World Expo (AWE), which has become a prime venue for XR announcements over the past few years. AWE goes from June 15th \u2013 18th, taking place in Long Beach, California.<\/p>\n

Notably, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is also set to deliver a keynote there, titled \u2018Making Computing More Human<\/a>\u2018, making it fairly certain we\u2019ll hear more about the company\u2019s expectations for its sixth-gen Specs.<\/p>\n

The fifth-gen Specs (seen below) were released in 2024 primarily for developers, ostensibly making its sixth-gen the first from the company specifically targeted at consumers.<\/p>\n

\"\"Snap Spectacles (gen 5) | Courtesy Snap Inc<\/p>\n

And while we don\u2019t know the specs behind Specs just yet, the company says it\u2019s emphasizing the device\u2019s built-in AI, something that \u201cuses its understanding of you and your world to help get things done on your behalf while protecting and respecting your privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reveal of Specs does come amid some turbulence though. In April, Snap laid off around 1,000 employees<\/a> and closed hundreds of open roles. Layoffs haven\u2019t largely affected Specs Inc however, which was spun up in January to allow the company to form new partnerships, have more capital flexibility, and, more importantly, insulate its AR business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This follows Snap\u2019s acquisiton of Illumix<\/a>, a spatial mapping company and developers behind\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s AR: Special Delivery\u00a0(2019), which is said to boost the company\u2019s AR efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snapchat parent Snap is nearing the long-awaited reveal of Specs, its next pair of AR glasses, as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[74,179,509,180],"class_list":["post-706072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}