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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat and its Specs augmented-reality glasses.
The 5G bundle costs $2,395 with $10 a month for Verizon customers, and the Specs Intelligence app opened a waitlist today for people with no glasses at all, asking to connect the apps they already use.
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Snap launched consumer Specs with an operating-system pitch but did not say when they ship, into a smart-glasses category that IDC says has cooled sharply since the first quarter and where Meta holds 70 percent. Spiegel said most of the show would be live demos.
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Snap's CEO told Tom's Guide that smart glasses disguised as ordinary frames end up feeling creepy. Specs answer with iridescent lenses and a 130-gram, all-in-frame build that sells for $2,195.
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Gizmodo wore Snap's Specs at the launch event and looked at dozens of other wearers, finding chunky glasses that were noticeably heavy in a short session and mostly left ears alone.
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At a Los Angeles event Snap wired its $2,200 glasses to HBO Max, Spotify, an NBA shooting drill and enterprise partners including Amazon, Salesforce and Nvidia. The demo that explained the pitch featured a repair job.
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Meta wants rivals to copy the product changes it agreed to with most US state attorneys general, and Snap's Evan Spiegel told the BBC a default daily cap for teens is something his company would implement. He did not say when.
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A supervoting share class and a board-appointing trust would let seven founders with a modest combined stake keep the final word after a listing that could be among the largest ever.
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