Evan Spiegel

Or if I look at our 15-year-old today and his friends, sometimes when they're hanging out, they're all looking down at their phones, even though they're all together.

And so I

I think there's just such a big opportunity to build technology that actually brings us together, that keeps us grounded in the real world rather than removing us from it.

And that's something that we realized early on with Snapchat.

We were innovating, building lenses and augmented reality, but ultimately we saw that people were using AR on these tiny little phone screens that required you to use your thumbs to interact.

And so, you know, it's almost like interacting with the world through like a keyhole, you know, rather than actually staying grounded and being able to interact together with friends.

So it just seems so obvious that like as computers play a bigger and bigger role in our lives, you know, I think today people spend seven or eight hours a day on average on screens that like something has got to change to make this technology fit better into our lives, right?

We get enormous value from computers, but at the same time, I think the cost is quite meaningful.

And

And I think they need to evolve.

So with the early version of Spectacles, I guess that was back in 2014 or something like that, the initial idea was just to get the camera off the phone, right, out of your pocket, and allow you to more easily take snaps out in the world.

But we then sort of built a roadmap from there, right, where we added a second camera to get depth, we added a display to be able to overlay

digital objects into the world and help you interact with them.

And then with the last generation in 2024, we released our operating system, which now allows developers to build full-featured software inside of specs in preparation for the consumer launch.

I don't know.

I think the time is right for a new type of computer.

I think people are frustrated with the cost of using phones and computers today.

They're kind of all hunched over like gremlins.

And we can build a new computer.

We have built a new computer that brings people outside, that helps them connect together with their friends, that frees them up to actually use their hands to interact with the world.