@ronaldmannak: As a tech demo, it’s impressive. As a consumer product, it still looks clunky. Unless you control everything down to si…
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Ronald Mannak critiques Snap's new Specs AR glasses, calling them impressive as a tech demo but clunky as a consumer product, and suggests offloading compute to other devices.
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As a tech demo, it’s impressive. As a consumer product, it still looks clunky. Unless you control everything down to silicon and packaging, it’s almost impossible to make AR glasses light and powerful. And even if you do, Vision Pro showed it’s still not a given. Maybe the glasses shouldn’t do everything. Move some compute and cameras into AirPods, and let glasses stay glasses.
Alex Heath (@alexeheath): I talked to Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about his new Specs AR glasses, and it’s hard for me to see the case for them yet
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