I wore Snap’s $2,200 smart glasses

我佩戴了 Snap 售价 2200 美元的智能眼镜

Snap has spent half a decade working toward its first consumer pair of AR glasses. They’re finally here — and they’re bold as can be. Snap 花了五年时间研发其首款消费级 AR 眼镜。它们终于问世了——而且外观极其大胆。

My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap’s new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes. Sitting across the table from a Snap employee wearing the same pair of chunky glasses, I could select a virtual domino with a pinch and then move my hand to drop it in place, watching the tile snap down in front of us on a real table. It was unlike anything I’ve tried in other VR headsets or smart glasses — the ability to sit with another person and have a shared digital experience. 佩戴 Snap 新款增强现实眼镜“Specs”时，我最喜欢的环节是玩多米诺骨牌。我与一位同样戴着这种厚重眼镜的 Snap 员工隔桌而坐，通过捏合手势选中一个虚拟骨牌，然后移动手部将其放置到位，看着骨牌落在我们面前的真实桌面上。这种能与他人坐在一起并共享数字体验的能力，是我在其他 VR 头显或智能眼镜中从未尝试过的。

Snap really believes in AR glasses. The company has spent more than half a decade developing the technology, producing two generations of glasses that only ever shipped to a small number of developers. The company seems to want to untether itself from the limitations of being just one app in a big store and instead pioneer the next great platform. Snap 对 AR 眼镜深信不疑。该公司花费了超过五年时间开发这项技术，此前生产的两代眼镜仅提供给少数开发者。Snap 似乎希望摆脱仅仅作为大型应用商店中一款应用的局限，转而开创下一个伟大的平台。

Now, Snap is nearly ready to launch its first pair of AR glasses for consumers, the Specs, sometime this fall. That suggests Snap thinks these meet its vision well enough for regular people to enjoy using the $2,195 glasses. They’re certainly full of big ideas. But after an afternoon of testing at Snap’s offices this week, I’m skeptical of whether they’ll be fully ready for primetime. 目前，Snap 已准备好在今年秋季推出其首款消费级 AR 眼镜 Specs。这表明 Snap 认为该产品已足够成熟，足以让普通用户享受这款售价 2195 美元的眼镜。它们确实充满了宏大的构想，但在本周于 Snap 办公室进行了一下午的测试后，我怀疑它们是否真的做好了大规模上市的准备。

The Specs are big, black, bold glasses that come in two lens sizes, 47mm and 52mm. Part of why they’re so bold is almost certainly to make a statement — there’s no mistaking these for a regular pair of glasses, like you might with Meta’s Ray-Bans. (They’re a little too conspicuous for me personally; my glasses style is squarely “Elder Millennial Who Shops At Warby Parker.”) But they’re also so chunky because they house all the hardware necessary to let the Specs function as a standalone computer, meaning they don’t need to be tethered to a phone, compute puck, or external battery. Specs 是一款硕大、黑色且外观大胆的眼镜，提供 47mm 和 52mm 两种镜片尺寸。它们之所以如此显眼，几乎可以肯定是为了彰显个性——你绝不会像对待 Meta 的 Ray-Ban 眼镜那样，误以为这只是一副普通的眼镜。（对我个人而言，它们太显眼了；我的眼镜风格属于典型的“在 Warby Parker 购物的千禧一代”。）但它们之所以如此厚重，是因为内置了作为独立计算机运行所需的所有硬件，这意味着它们无需连接手机、计算模块或外接电池。

They may be chunky, but the Specs aren’t quite as heavy as they look. They’re heavier than my Warby Parker glasses, of course, which I can comfortably wear for most of the day. But the Specs didn’t drag on my face like a full-on VR headset. The Specs felt sturdy, too: I shook my head around and they didn’t fall off or even really slip. I wouldn’t suggest playing pickup basketball in these, but they’ll stay on your face while walking around. They made my ears sag just a little, though. And I wasn’t able to use the Specs enough to tell you if they’d start to feel uncomfortable over the course of a full four-hour battery cycle. 虽然看起来厚重，但 Specs 并没有想象中那么沉。当然，它们比我戴的 Warby Parker 眼镜重，后者我可以舒适地佩戴一整天。但 Specs 不会像全尺寸 VR 头显那样压在脸上。Specs 的质感也很稳固：我晃动头部时，它们没有掉落，甚至没有明显的滑动。我不建议戴着它们打篮球，但平时走路佩戴完全没问题。不过，它们确实让我的耳朵感到了一点负担。而且我无法进行足够长时间的测试，无法告诉你它们在四小时的完整电池续航周期内是否会让人感到不适。

Actually using the Specs is kind of like using a hybrid of smart glasses and a VR headset. In front of your eyes, you can see menus, app windows, and elements of whatever app (“lens”) you’re using, like the digital dominoes. Those elements appear over whatever you’re looking at with your eyes through the lenses of the glasses, which have waveguide displays that can show “16 million colors” and “sharp, high-resolution visuals” (Snap hasn’t specified the exact resolution). 实际使用 Specs 的感觉就像是智能眼镜和 VR 头显的结合体。在眼前，你可以看到菜单、应用窗口以及你正在使用的任何应用（“镜头”）的元素，比如数字多米诺骨牌。这些元素会叠加在你通过镜片看到的真实物体之上。镜片采用了波导显示技术，可以呈现“1600 万种颜色”和“清晰、高分辨率的视觉效果”（Snap 尚未公布具体分辨率）。

Thanks to hand-tracking tech in the Specs, you can pinch and drag to manipulate parts of the interface, such as resizing a window or moving a domino onto the game board, and Snap says you can even snap your fingers to take a picture in the Specs’ Snapchat app. Clever. You can also have windows follow along as you move your head, in case you want to keep a window in your vision no matter where you’re looking. You can access a home button, a Control Center-like menu, and status information like the time by holding up your palm in a setup that reminds me of the ill-fated Humane Pin. 得益于 Specs 内置的手部追踪技术，你可以通过捏合和拖拽来操作界面，例如调整窗口大小或将骨牌移动到游戏板上。Snap 表示，你甚至可以通过打响指在 Specs 的 Snapchat 应用中拍照。这很巧妙。你还可以让窗口跟随头部移动，这样无论你看向哪里，窗口都能保持在视野内。通过抬起手掌，你可以调出主页按钮、类似控制中心的菜单以及时间等状态信息，这种交互方式让我想起了命运多舛的 Humane Pin。

In my limited testing, it was all rather finicky. I often had to pinch a few times or make sure my hand was placed in just the right spot to get something to work the way it should. I never quite nailed the two-part action of flipping my hand up and then using my other hand to press the home button. While standing in the sun, it was much harder to see the augmented reality graphics. 在我有限的测试中，这一切都相当挑剔。我经常需要捏合好几次，或者确保手部放在正确的位置，才能让操作生效。我始终无法熟练掌握“翻转手掌”再用另一只手按下主页按钮的组合动作。而在阳光下，看清增强现实图形则变得更加困难。

Snap has beaten competitors like Meta to shipping a pair of glasses with displays in both lenses, letting it deliver a true AR effect and not just another flat screen. But by putting the AR display dead center in your vision, the Specs’ 51-degree field of view becomes a major limitation. It meant that digital elements kept slipping out of sight during my demos, which ruined the illusion that they were actually in the real world. While watching Lanterns on HBO Max in a browser in a moving car, I had to shrink the window to make it easier to see in front of me. While playing dominoes, I had to keep physically turning my head to see my dominoes and the playing board and back again. Snap 在推出双镜片显示眼镜方面领先于 Meta 等竞争对手，从而实现了真正的 AR 效果，而不仅仅是另一个平面屏幕。但由于 AR 显示屏位于视野正中央，Specs 51 度的视场角成为了一个主要限制。这意味着在演示过程中，数字元素经常滑出视野，破坏了它们真实存在于现实世界中的错觉。在行驶的车内通过浏览器观看 HBO Max 的《Lanterns》时，我不得不缩小窗口以便在前方看清内容。而在玩多米诺骨牌时，我必须不断转动头部，才能在骨牌和游戏板之间来回切换视线。

Because it’s 2026, the Specs also have a dedicated AI chatbot assistant, but in my limited experience it was slow and inconsistent. With a “Hey Specs” command, I asked it to show me funny cat videos on YouTube, as suggested by a Snap rep. I had to ask it twice because it didn’t pick up the command the first time. When the command worked, it then took about 15 seconds for the Specs to pull up a YouTube page with search results for funny cat videos. 由于现在是 2026 年，Specs 还配备了专门的 AI 聊天机器人助手，但在我有限的体验中，它反应缓慢且不稳定。按照 Snap 代表的建议，我通过“Hey Specs”指令让它在 YouTube 上给我看搞笑猫咪视频。我不得不问了两次，因为它第一次没识别出指令。当指令生效后，Specs 花了大约 15 秒才调出包含搞笑猫咪视频搜索结果的 YouTube 页面。

Watching that video also revealed to me a bizarre social interaction that people will have to come to grips with if AR glasses gain any sort of traction. On that YouTube page, I picked some random cat video collection, and it played in the background while the Snap rep kept talking to me. Even though… 观看该视频的过程也向我揭示了一种奇怪的社交互动，如果 AR 眼镜能够普及，人们将不得不适应这一点。在那个 YouTube 页面上，我随意选了一个猫咪视频合集，它在后台播放，而 Snap 的代表则继续与我交谈。尽管……