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I Wore Snap’s New Self Contained AR Spectacles and Snap OS
A self-contained new set of AR glasses can go outdoors, work with phones, connect with ChatGPT, and work with groups of people. But these big glasses also show how much work still needs to be done. Snap AR Spectacles – 0:00 Demos – 1:50 How It Differs – 3:50 Subscribe to CNET on YouTube: Never…
@CoryJumper-h9f
September 17, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Really enjoyed it! Looking forward to more videos from you! 🧡💖
@iMoha46
September 17, 2024 at 2:05 pm
i wanna know if people actually buy subscription glasses
@pdropm3352
September 17, 2024 at 2:12 pm
heads up! This is more for developers, not regular folks.
@dethcubegaming1556
September 17, 2024 at 2:13 pm
CNET has clearly *never* heard of the inmo air 2 and that is just sad! Theyre self contained AR glasses but yall wont even look at them
@pdropm3352
September 17, 2024 at 2:13 pm
You forgot about microsoft hololens
@nickthaskater
September 17, 2024 at 3:16 pm
Microsoft forgot about Hololens.
@jizzlecizzle1388
September 17, 2024 at 3:20 pm
Hololens is nowhere near the size of glasses.
@MrTalhakhan01
September 17, 2024 at 3:01 pm
how they show dark pixel?
Is it what dimming tech related to?
@S1MONSAYSVR
September 17, 2024 at 3:14 pm
Wow, I’m guessing Meta will have something like this on their Connect. Snap beat them to it 😛 I’m just glad I’m alive to see this shift from phone to head mounted displays. Sure has a long way to go for mass adoption and the tech to get there. But we’re absolutely getting there.
@smittyvanjagermanjenson182
September 17, 2024 at 3:37 pm
It’s got me even more curious about the connect event. I’m really interested to see Metas rumored glasses are like compared to this. Snap investing in AR glasses since 2016 VS Meta who has been oculus since 2013 now shifting towards AR glasses? Who’s gonna do it better?
@nicktheg00
September 17, 2024 at 3:44 pm
@@smittyvanjagermanjenson182 The awnser is unequivocally Meta based off every single leak we have available.
The FOV for these things is only 46 degrees, well below state of the art see through AR devices like Magic Leap 2 and Meta’s upcoming project Orion prototype (both of which feature a 70 degree field of view). Magic Leap 2 has been out since October 2022 and Project Orion will be unveiled at connect next week, though it won’t be sold to the general public.
Even the Microsoft HoloLens 2 which was released 5 years ago had a bigger FOV (52 degrees vs 46 degrees).
@nickthaskater
September 17, 2024 at 3:19 pm
This sort of tech is so useless. I wish we’d stop wasting time and resources on it.
@lanchesternaanyane
September 17, 2024 at 3:41 pm
Not useless at all. It’s a future goldmine. The R&D these big tech companies do now will pay off massively in 10-20 years. A world where these companies will be able to directly blast ads into your eyes 24/7.
@nickthaskater
September 17, 2024 at 3:53 pm
@@lanchesternaanyane lol k.
@smittyvanjagermanjenson182
September 17, 2024 at 3:24 pm
This is the tech Im excited about. Being a glasses wearer im ready for these wearables more than a watch. Interesting to see another company making strides in this tech alongside Meta, whose connect event is coming up
@McBain2024
September 17, 2024 at 3:31 pm
Snap just signalled they are officially out of ideas
@G._-
September 17, 2024 at 3:51 pm
Am I just trippin or did you just say hamburger dinosaur? In ’85 The Twilight Zone had an episode called “Wordplay” in which a man in the twilight zone goes through a change where he hears people speaking English, but the words have different meaning. One of them is when they his wife says dinosaur she means lunch.
@carl_aryee
September 17, 2024 at 3:53 pm
No
@dman7895
September 17, 2024 at 3:55 pm
Did we get any reviews or videos on the HTC vive pro 2?
@nicktheg00
September 17, 2024 at 4:45 pm
That came out 3 and a half years ago..
@pigsy10123
September 17, 2024 at 4:11 pm
Great review. Thanks for posting. 👍👍
@L6Jeremy
September 17, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Everybody trying to get out infront of Meta Connect
@witness1013
September 17, 2024 at 4:25 pm
It’s crazy how much $ goes into R&D on such a stupid idea that no one is asking for – that they’ll never be able to do well. Pluggin in a neural uplink and uploading info in real-time for your cortex will be here long before they make AR/VR work.
@smittyvanjagermanjenson182
September 17, 2024 at 6:09 pm
Meta: “we’re building the Metaverse”
All the tech companies: 😂😂😂 how goofy
Meta: We’re not gonna stop and we’re going to take over this untapped market unchallenged.
All the tech companies: Wait, what? They sold how many quest 2 headsets?… GET TO WORK! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! I WANT THIS COMPANY SELLING AN XR SYSTEM BY 2025!
there’s your history lesson. On how Meta got everyone in the XR race.
@mgratk
September 17, 2024 at 4:29 pm
It’s time to say NO to all these ridiculous subscriptions.
@jro4960
September 17, 2024 at 4:57 pm
I blame Adobe
@Liwaaaah
September 17, 2024 at 5:16 pm
@@jro4960i blame rent for giving adobe the balls
@Ray__E
September 17, 2024 at 5:12 pm
I don’t care how good or cool a type of tech is. Once I hear subscription I immediately lose interest
@smittyvanjagermanjenson182
September 17, 2024 at 6:01 pm
It’s a developer subscription for experimental glasses, not for consumers in the slightest. meaning those devs are paying to rent the glasses to actually build something useful that benefits the platform and pays off for them and snap in the long run.
Once the platform is established, consumers won’t have a subscription. It’s snaps way of making sure their future consumer glasses are not an empty grave yard like the Apple Vision Pro ended up starting out as.
@Liwaaaah
September 17, 2024 at 5:17 pm
BROOOO SNAPCHAT WENT HARD AF
@apdurden
September 17, 2024 at 5:19 pm
Very curious why these companies are trying to do ALL the compute in the glasses to start out. Why not leverage the phone for compute and have the phone send data/images to the glasses?
@smittyvanjagermanjenson182
September 17, 2024 at 5:54 pm
It’s better for a low latency interface if the glasses come equipped with its own processor. The processor in them is also tailor-made for XR use, while smartphone processors are not. However, they are similar.
Another major factor is that the majority of these smart glasses developers are not smartphone manufacturers. They can’t freely alter and optimize Android for their glasses on another companies hardware without explicit consent first. So, the proprietary OS they built helps devs bypass that for now.
Google and Samsung are releasing glasses soon, so let’s see if they use the current galaxy lineup or if they go with the stand-alone design as well.
@frinkfronk9198
September 17, 2024 at 6:40 pm
Yeah I still tend to think they are missing a big opportunity here too. Like it would be so much easier to create a wireless li k between the glasses with a tiny latency and super high speed than tying to keep all the computing power in board. They should be offloading it into the smartphone and using its vastly more powerful tech and steaming it to the glasses wirelessly.
@BurtonJohnson
September 17, 2024 at 6:01 pm
I’m okay with my glasses having a prescription, not s subscription.
@g_run_rock5983
September 17, 2024 at 6:40 pm
Ngl the look of these glasses kinda remind me of the ones my grandparents used to wear 😂
@X139T
September 17, 2024 at 8:34 pm
FORTY FIVE MINUTE BATTERY LIFE
@citricdolphin
September 17, 2024 at 8:41 pm
I can’t see this kind of thing being even slightly useful until it has a better battery life or a smaller form factor, ideally both.
As it stands now, where it’s still very conspicuous and the battery life is so short that you’re only going to be wearing this exactly when you’re using it, I can barely see any practical advantage here compared to something like a Quest 3. Better battery, better performance, better visuals, better FOV…with the only real tradeoff being that it’s bigger and the passthrough (which you’re not relying heavily on anyway) is blurrier.
@corvusvalidus1538
September 17, 2024 at 8:57 pm
IF 👏 YOU 👏 NEED 👏 MORE 👏 THAN 👏45 MINUTES 👏 OF 👏 BATTERY 👏 LIFE 👏 JUST 👏 KEEP 👏 THEM 👏 PLUGGED 👏 INTO 👏 YOUR 👏 PHONE 👏 FOR 👏 CHARGING