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 will launch its first-ever smart glasses for all consumers next year, ratcheting up competition with bigger rival Meta in the wearable technology market. The augmented reality smart glasses, called Specs,

Snap joins Meta, Google and Apple in trying to shape the future of computing with the release of high-tech glasses. Efforts to get people to wear a computer on their face will ramp up in 2026.

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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On Tuesday, Snap announced it will launch "lightweight" and "immersive" AR glasses next year. The existing model, the Spectacles 24', has been available to software developers since October. But the company is now gearing up to take it mainstream with an even more portable commercial product called the Specs.