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The Vergecast

Snap's Specs look good on nobody

18 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 9.164 Noam Hassenfeld

Support for this show comes from Odoo. Running a business is hard enough, so why make it harder with a dozen different apps that don't talk to each other?

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Chapter 2: What are the new features of Snap's smart glasses?

9.825 - 22.123 Noam Hassenfeld

Introducing Odoo. It's the only business software you'll ever need. It's an all-in-one, fully integrated platform that makes your work easier. CRM, accounting, inventory, e-commerce and more.

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Chapter 3: How does Snap's software advantage impact its glasses?

22.188 - 27.413 Noam Hassenfeld

And the best part? Odoo replaces multiple expensive platforms for a fraction of the cost.

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Chapter 4: What is the price point of Snap's new specs and is it justified?

27.973 - 41.225 Noam Hassenfeld

That's why over thousands of businesses have made the switch. So why not you? Try Odoo for free at odoo.com. That's O-D-O-O dot com.

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41.245 - 63.207 Joe Benigno

When you finally find your thing, you want the whole world to know about that thing. So you use a thing called Canva to make it an even bigger and better thing. Whether you want to create flyers for that thing, make presentations for that thing, or design merch for that thing, you can do anything. So people can see your thing, feel your thing, love your thing.

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Chapter 5: What risks does Facebook's new AI mode present?

63.989 - 69.137 Joe Benigno

The next thing you know, it's a thing. Canva, the thing that makes anything a thing.

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73.555 - 83.293 David Pearce

Hello, and welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of liquid crystal on silicon, a technology that all Snapchat users care deeply about and look forward to adopting on their faces.

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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Matter's updates for smart home devices?

83.714 - 85.878 David Pearce

I'm your friend, David Pierce, and you have to tell us here. Hello.

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Chapter 7: What are the privacy concerns related to Snap's glasses?

86.259 - 86.66 Isaiah Granet

You're home.

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86.92 - 98.339 David Pearce

This is like, I forgot what it looks like when you sit in your actual house making podcasts. Yeah, and like it all works and I'm not staring out a window with a staircase behind me. I'm sad about the staircase. The staircase got a lot of love last week. It did.

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Chapter 8: Why is Fox acquiring Roku and what does it mean for streaming?

98.399 - 115.746 David Pearce

The staircase was a true hit on the Verge cast. We have a lot to talk about this week. Fox is buying Roku, which means we are for sure going to bring the Go 90 scale back. And we have a lot to talk about. There's some AI news. Brendan Carr is up to stuff. There's a lot going on, but we have to start with specs.

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115.726 - 142.051 David Pearce

So Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, has been talking about making AR glasses for 10 years, I think? A long time. Since the first version of Specs, I think, was almost exactly a decade ago. And this has been the future of the company for a very long time. They announced a while ago that they were going to ship consumer-ready AR glasses this year, and now they've shown them off and they've announced them.

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142.431 - 165.205 David Pearce

They're called Specs. And, Nilay, just before we started recording, you did the thing that I have been doing obsessively, which is look at pictures of Specs on people's faces. Yes. Let me just run down the specs of these specs before we get into the thing. Because what's interesting about this and what I want to talk about is these seem to be technically very impressive in a certain way.

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165.625 - 183.351 David Pearce

You and I have talked a lot about the Vision Pro being one end of what you can do with this technology. However you want to feel about what it is in the world, it is a remarkable piece of technological engineering. Specs has a little bit of that going on, too. It's there are two different models. One is 47 millimeters. One is 52.

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184.492 - 208.306 David Pearce

The lighter one weighs 132 grams, which just for context, like the iPhone 17 is 177 grams. So imagine like almost an iPhone 17 kind of on your face and a normal pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers is about 45. So it's like three normal pairs of sunglasses on your face. They have removable inserts for prescriptions, which they also think of as a way to do multi-user support, which is kind of clever.

208.326 - 228.563 David Pearce

You can just like pop out your lenses. They have a 51 degree field of view, which Evan Spiegel compared to having a 24 inch monitor in front of you or 115 inch TV 10 feet away. They have two Snapdragon processors, seven millisecond latency, four hours of battery life, which is... And four more charges in the case.

229.064 - 251.941 David Pearce

They're like... These seem to be about as good a pair of smart glasses with a display on them as you can make right now. And then you see someone wearing them. And here we are. Tell me the pictures you've been looking at. So... Evan Spiegel is married to Miranda Kerr, right? He's married to a supermodel. So he got a bunch of beautiful models to wear his glasses. And Jimmy Butler, the NBA player.

252.042 - 252.783 Joe Rogan

And Jimmy Butler.

252.803 - 269.089 David Pearce

So Kaia Gerber, Cindy Crawford's daughter, is the first picture I saw. She's legitimately a beautiful person. Yeah. And she looks ridiculous in the glasses. Like, you can't make anything this big look good on anyone. Jack Harlow does not look cool in the glasses. Imogen Heap. Actually, Imogen Heap might look cool in the glasses.

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