Snap is back with a pair of lightweight, AR smart glasses. For the first time in years, the company wants to sell them to consumers.

Snapchat, long-known as a featherweight in the league of Big Tech giants, is hoping to best opponents Meta, Google and Apple by releasing its new augmented reality AI-enabled smart glasses months, maybe even years,

Snap is launching consumer AR Specs in 2026, aiming to bring AI, 3D content, and real-world interaction to your face.

Snap Specs are the company's latest AR glasses, but they'll far be more lightweight and powerful than any of the previous Spectacles.

Snap plans to start selling its first pair of augmented reality glasses to the public in 2026. The coming release is part of CEO Evan Spiegel’s decade-plus bet on what comes after the smartphone. He teased it Tuesday onstage at the Augmented World Expo, an augmented and virtual reality developer conference in Long Beach, California.

Between Meta and its Ray-Ban glasses, Xreal and its partnership with Google, and a rumored Samsung entrant that could arrive any day now, the smart glasses field is hot right now. No matter how crowded the field is getting,

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Late in 2024, Snap teased the 5th generation Spectacles, its augmented reality smart glasses. At the time, the glasses were only just becoming available to device developers who could rent a pair for $99 a month. Today (June 10), during the Augmented World Exhibition (AWE) 2025, the public will get to don the new Specs in 2026.

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