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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the new features of Snap's smart glasses?
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Chapter 3: How does Snap's software advantage impact its glasses?
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Chapter 4: What is the price point of Snap's new specs and is it justified?
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Chapter 5: What risks does Facebook's new AI mode present?
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Matter's updates for smart home devices?
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Chapter 7: What are the privacy concerns related to Snap's glasses?
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Chapter 8: Why is Fox acquiring Roku and what does it mean for streaming?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Jimmy Butler.
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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