Snap to launch lightweight, immersive spectacles in 2026 as smartglass race heats up

Snap Inc., the parent company of the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, announced on Tuesday that it will launch immersive smart glasses called Specs in 2026. This is in line with other Big Tech companies targeting the lucrative smart glasses market, each looking for the next breakthrough in tech hardware.

Snap’s Specs are wearable computers integrated into a lightweight pair of glasses featuring see-through lenses that augment the physical world. In 2024, the tech company released the fifth generation of its Spectacles specifically for developers,…