Snap launches its new Specs smart glasses with augmented reality, Specs Intelligence AI, translation and navigation

Snap ha officially launched their new smart glasses Specsdefined as a “computer integrated into augmented reality glasses” to offer digital experiences in the users’ real environment, from translations, to browsing, playing sports or working, all powered by native artificial intelligence (AI) and Specs Intelligence.

The company announced its move from augmented reality to smart devices in June of this year, leaving behind its well-known Spectacles glasses and introducing its new Specs smart glasses for to make “computing useful at the right time.”

At the time, Snap indicated that it would put its new Specs glasses on sale in fall this year for $2,195 (around 1,913.43 euros at the exchange rate) and, now, it has held a launch event where it has announced that will start sending this new device to late autumn in the United States, United Kingdom and France.

During the event, held in Los Angeles (United States), Snap’s CEO, Evan Spiegel, showed up close everything users can do with Specs glasses, including new augmented reality experiences and native AIdriven by Specs IntelligenceSnap’s new independent predictive AI service, which it also presented for the first time at this meeting and which can be used on glasses as well as on iPhone and Mac devices.

Spiegel has referred to these glasses as a augmented reality device with an integrated computerdesigned under the company’s vision of “humanizing computing” and interacting with the world, as stated in a statement.

In this way, by having transparent lenses, the CEO ensures that they allow “integrate digital experiences into the real environment” and, with its native AI operating system, helps users to perform tasks through natural hand and voice interactionsin a computer ‘hardware’ that “does not require cables or adapters.”

Specifically, as the company already indicated at the time of presentation, this is possible because the glasses equip two Snapdragon processors: one dedicated to computer vision and another to the implementation of lenses, which make digital experiences understand the physical world around the user and track hands with a latency of seven milliseconds.

As a result, as Snap showed at the event, glasses can drive multiple actions on a daily basis, from practice a skill until your imagination comes to life. For example, they have partnered with the NBA and WNBA to create interactive basketball experiences that help fans practice the sport, combining the real environment of a court and a ball, with visual guides, exercises and progress signs to perfect the game.

The same will be extended to other sports such as football, golf or yoga, as well as other more recreational experiences. Thus, in collaboration with HBO Max, users will also be able to bring the world of Harry Potter to your environment, reliving key moments from history and performing spells in your living room through hand control.

Likewise, Specs glasses can also help deliver a more immersive and hands-on educationwhether showing contextual information, recreating historical scenes around users or illustrating the constellations in the sky. Furthermore, with the browser integrated into Specs, users will also be able to view streaming content from platforms like YouTube or HBO Max.

To carry out all these actions, it is worth remembering that Specs glasses have a display system that uses a patented liquid crystal technology on silicon, offering a 51-degree field of view and 16 million colors. This is equivalent to a 24 inch desktop monitor. In addition, it is complemented by new waveguide technology to create a sharper and more fluid view of the physical world.

CONNECT WITH OTHER PEOPLE, TRANSLATE, BROWSE AND WORK

The new glasses are also designed to connect with other people and, in addition to being able answer calls, see notifications and listen to music By connecting the Specs with the smartphone, it also offers Connected Lenseswhich allows sharing digital experiences in different physical spaces.

The company has also detailed that they have redesigned Snapchat for use with Specs glasses, so “just “snap your fingers” to capture a photo or start a video call with hands free.

Continuing their capabilities, Specs glasses can also help translate conversations in up to 60 different languagesdisplaying subtitles in the field of view when a person speaks in a different language.

Likewise, they are a tool designed for navigation since, while the user walks, they can enter a destination or say out loud where they want to go and, automatically, a map with directions superimposed on the field of view, with voice guidance option.

Snap has also collaborated with Tripadvisor to help users find nearby restaurants, sights, or experienceswhich will be displayed directly in physical space.

Another capability that the company has highlighted is that Specs glasses can transform any space into an immersive workplace. This is because they can connect with computer wirelesslyexpanding the workstation beyond the limits of the traditional desktop.

In addition, they have a whiteboard experiencewhich allows you to turn any space into an environment to generate ideas or organize.

As for companies, they have partnered with Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, Trifork and Hololight, to bring the capabilities of Specs to the workplace, whether factories, stores, or the field.

SECURITY AND PRIVACY

The company has also influenced the security and privacy that maintain the new Specs by design. This is because, as they have stated, They do not use facial recognition to identify people, as well as They also do not continuously record or save audio, video or photographs.

As they have explained, when the user captures a photo or records a video or audio, lights an external LED visible in the center of the frame of the glasses, which flashes when recording. Additionally, users can choose which services the glasses can access, as well as which services the Specs Intelligence AI connects to.

Regarding the battery, the new Specs glasses They offer up to 20 hours of use with the charging case, which provides four additional charges. This case, sold separately for 200 dollarsincludes cellular connectivity with the main mobile phone operators worldwide.

All in all, users can now purchase these new Snap Specs glasses, which will begin to be made available at the end of October, for the moment, in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.