Snap OS 2.0 is a small step towards AR glasses you might actually wear
Snap's 2024 Spectacles are still only available to developers.Last September, Snap revealed its fifth-generation Spectacles, upgraded AR glasses with a twist: they were only ever released to developers. One year later, we still haven't seen even a glimpse of the consumer-ready version of those glasses, which the company still says is coming in 2026, but Snap is ready to show off Snap OS 2.0, a software update to those developer Spectacles that signals its plans for mainstream AR.
The big changes are actually surprisingly boring. A better web browser, a gallery app, some translation tools. These aren't the fun, whimsical AR experiences that Snap has pushed in the past - they're the functional things, t ...