Robot model
Spectacles 5
Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP; Santa Monica) announced its fifth-generation Spectacles at the September 2024 Snap Partner Summit: standalone augmented-reality glasses…
- Manufacturer
- Snap Inc
- Form factor
- wearable
- Maturity
- pilot
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 1
- Website
- newsroom.snap.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Spectacles 5, a wearable by Snap Inc (pilot): 1 verified deployment on record. 6 sources back the record.
Overview
Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP; Santa Monica) announced its fifth-generation Spectacles at the September 2024 Snap Partner Summit: standalone augmented-reality glasses running Snap OS with dual see-through waveguide displays, hand-tracking, and a voice interface. The hardware weighs 226 grams, carries four cameras and a roughly 46-degree diagonal field of view on a dual Snapdragon system-on-chip, and runs about 45 minutes standalone.
Crucially, Spectacles 5 is distributed to developers only, through a $99-per-month subscription with a one-year commitment in the US, rather than at retail. The AI is genuine and multimodal: Snap partnered with OpenAI and supports Gemini on Google Cloud, so developers build multimodal AI Lenses and the My AI assistant can read signs, translate menus, and identify objects from natural language, making AI a defining axis rather than veneer.
The registry records it at pilot maturity to reflect the developer-only distribution, the short battery life, and the program gating. Snap has separately announced a lightweight consumer product called Specs for 2026, reported by the press at around $2,500 for a fall 2026 launch and backed by an April 2026 Qualcomm Snapdragon-XR partnership for on-device compute, but that is a separate, not-yet-shipped future product noted here rather than a distinct registry entry, and its pricing and specs are not Snap-confirmed.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- pilot(Small-scale deployment in controlled or trial conditions.)
- Sources on file
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Key facts
Weight
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Field of view
Price
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Specs
Notes
Specs
Battery
Weight kg
Form Factor
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
1
Web sources
3
6 sources backing this record.View all →
Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not sold (internal use)
- Price
- $99 (actual sale price)as of 2026-01-01
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
Monthly subscription
$99 USDactual sale priceas of 2026-01-01
Price status: actual-sale-price = real published price at time of sale; manufacturer-target = vendor target, not yet realized; analyst-estimate = third-party projection, not a vendor figure; not-announced = no price on record.
Prices verified as of Jan 1, 2026
Deployments (1)
- Spectacles 5 at Globaloperational
Snap Spectacles (5th gen / AR) aggregate global deployment.
Spectacles 5 on the deployment map
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
Snap Spectacles augmented-reality glasses
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Price point recorded: $99VerifiedJan 1, 2026
Actual sale price
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
at Global
- Incident recordedMay 15, 2017
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Deployment-verified media (1)
Snap's framing of its Spectacles augmented-reality glasses. The fifth-generation Spectacles is a standalone see-through AR developer device, not a consumer shipping product.
From deployment: Global
Supply chain (1)
Compute / semiconductor
- QualcommSnapdragon processors from Qualcomm -- dual SoC architecture splitting compute workload across two Snapdragon chips for AR processing and connectivitysupplies
Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Spectacles 5.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (6)
- https://newsroom.snap.com/sps-2024-spectacles-snapos
- https://www.uploadvr.com/snap-spectacles-5-ar/
- https://www.maginative.com/article/snap-unveils-standalone-ar-spectacles-announces-openai-partnership-2/
- https://investor.snap.com/news/news-details/2025/Snap-to-Launch-New-Lightweight-Immersive-Specs-in-2026/default.aspx
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-sell-lightweight-consumer-ar-glasses-in-2026/
- https://www.spectacles.com/explore
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Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-15
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-15
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: wearable
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Spectacles 5.Recent coverage
Spectacles 5 in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Spectacles 5 from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/snap-spectacles-5.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/8244ac46-26c8-42c3-b6c0-fc2371dc38af
- Revision history: /models/snap-spectacles-5/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Buyer-facing pricing: deploy.report/price/snap-spectacles-5
Reality vs attention
Spectacles 5 draws attention at the 57th percentile but verifies reality at the 24th percentile among wearable robots. Hype Gap +32.8, 10th widest among wearable robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 1, 2026