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Snap’s new Spectacles inch closer to compelling AR
Will developers finally help Snap take AR glasses mainstream?
This time around, though, there’s an extra hurdle: you have to apply for access through Lens Studio, the company’s desktop tool for creating AR software, and pay $1,188 to lease a pair for at least one year. More perplexingly, Snap’s own demos emphasized this fact; a golfing simulator I tried was constrained to a frustratingly small area of the real world around me. The fourth generation of Spectacles from 2021 overheated multiple times during my demo but this latest version didn’t crash once, even while I was wearing them outside during a record heat wave in Los Angeles.
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