Snap's Specs AR glasses are now on pre-order, Verizon is offering data plans for them

Snap, formerly known as Snapchat, spun off Specs, the division responsible for its augmented reality (AR) glasses, early this year, and now it's ready to take pre-orders for the upcoming product, which is also called Specs, just to be confusing.

These are $2,195 standalone AR glasses that don't require a phone or computer connection to work. They have a see-through transparent display with a 51-degree field of view which apparently looks as big as a 115" screen would when viewed from about 10 feet away, a camera indicator light, "dual Snapdragon processors", and a magnetic 5-pin charging interface.

Specs official images

The glasses are made with a TR90 frame, and come in two sizes: 47mm narrow and 52mm wide. They feature voice and gesture controls, open-ear stereo speakers, six microphones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and they're prescription-ready.

If you want their case to have cellular data connectivity, you'll have to pay $2,395 instead, and note that Specs has an exclusive with Verizon for this. So the data will be on Verizon’s network, and data plans will start at $10 per month if you're already a Verizon customer, or $20 per month if you're not.

The Specs are "expected to ship" this fall in their Wi-Fi-only version, while Verizon hasn't even said something that vague yet, so the cellular version might be further away. We’ll let you know when we find out more.

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