Snap Spectacles 5th Generation Upgrades

Augmented Reality Display

Expanded field of view

Adaptive lenses

Gesture and voice control

Longer battery life

AI-integrated apps

AR application development support

Hardware technology upgrade

Features and Functions of New Spectacles

1. Hardware functions and design

• Lightweight design: Spectacles weighs only 226 grams, almost half the weight of traditional VR headsets, making it comfortable to wear and suitable for long-term use.

• Multi-camera and sensor integration: The glasses are equipped with four cameras and multiple sensors, enabling precise environmental understanding, gesture tracking, and 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) tracking. 6DoF allows users to move freely and interact with augmented reality content, providing a more natural and immersive experience.

• Advanced Optical Engine: Snap’s proprietary liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) micro-projector, combined with waveguide technology, produces clear, bright AR images. Users can easily experience augmented reality content without the need for complex calibration.

• Auto-dimming lenses: The lenses can automatically adjust the brightness according to the external light environment to ensure clear visual effects both indoors and outdoors, and the projected augmented reality content can be easily seen especially in strong light.

2. Display and visual experience

• 46-degree field of view: The Spectacles display has a 46-degree diagonal field of view (FoV), allowing users to see augmented reality content in a wider field of view, a significant improvement over the previous generation of products.

• 37 Pixels Per Degree Resolution: Waveguide displays offer up to 37 PPD (pixel density), giving users a viewing experience similar to that of a 100-inch monitor at a distance of 10 feet.

• Automatic adjustment: The automatic adjustment function of the lens adjusts the brightness of the lens according to the lighting environment, so that the displayed content remains clear and bright in various environments.

3. Computing power and performance

• Dual system-on-chip architecture: Using Qualcomm's dual Snapdragon processors, it can share computing workloads to ensure smooth operation of the device. This architecture can also effectively reduce power consumption while improving efficiency when processing complex augmented reality tasks.

• Vapor chamber cooling: To address the heat problem during long-term use, Spectacles uses a titanium vapor chamber cooling design to ensure that the device can be worn for a long time and handle high-intensity AR content without overheating or causing performance degradation.

• Battery life: Spectacles has up to 45 minutes of continuous use time and supports USB-C charging, so users can continue to use it while plugging it in to charge.

4. Snap OS operating system and interaction

• Snap OS: Spectacles runs on the new Snap OS operating system, which is designed for natural interaction and provides an intuitive user interface and interaction method. Users can control the glasses through gestures and voice commands, and the main menu can always be called up through palm gestures.

• Snap Spatial Engine: Snap’s spatial engine can accurately understand the surrounding environment and seamlessly integrate augmented reality content into the real world with an extremely low 13 milliseconds motion-to-photon latency. It ensures that AR content is displayed more naturally and realistically in three-dimensional space.

5. Augmented reality experience and application

• Multimodal AI: Spectacles’ built-in multimodal generative AI supports real-time content generation based on the environment and user interactions. Users can use AI to browse web results, generate 3D assets, and watch spatially arranged video content in their daily activities.

• Shared lens experience: Spectacles emphasizes multi-person shared experience. With Snap OS, developers can create augmented reality applications suitable for family or friends to use together. For example, with Spectacles, you can join a shared lens with friends to interact and play in an augmented reality environment.

6. Extended functions and supporting applications

• Spectator Mode: Spectacles' Spectator Mode allows users to share their augmented reality experiences with friends, who can watch the user's experience from their own perspective through their devices.

• Mobile phone mirroring function: Spectacles supports mobile phone mirroring function, which allows users to display applications or content on their mobile phones directly on the glasses. This function greatly expands the application scenarios of the glasses, and users can use commonly used mobile phone applications more conveniently.

• 6DoF controller: Through the Spectacles companion app, users can turn their phones into a 6DoF controller, further enhancing the interactivity and operational freedom of AR applications.