Snap's AR Glasses Bet on Life After the Smartphone

Snap just unveiled specs for its latest AR glasses, and the company's framing tells you what it's betting on. Evan Spiegel has been talking about "post-smartphone" for years. Now the hardware's catching up.

The specs aren't just incremental — they're building toward glasses that do the heavy lifting of computing without you staring at a screen. Notifications, camera capture, navigation — all overlaid on the world you're already in. Spiegel's confidence isn't new, but the numbers suggest he's finally backing it up with something people can actually use.

Why this matters for us: When the next computing platform takes off, the companies that control the hardware and the apps get to decide how we see and interact with the world — and right now, that power sits in Silicon Valley.