Snap’s Specs look good on nobody

Snap’s new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we’ve seen. They’re not VR-headset huge; they don’t have a big charging puck; thanks to Snap’s many years of AR lens development, they’re likely to have a lot of features right out of the box. (Yes, they’re $2,195, but that may just be what all this tech costs right now.) Snap is clearly at the front of this race. And then… you see the pictures. The pictures of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing the new Specs , as the enormous and heavy stems smash down on his ears. The pictures of models and athletes wearing Specs, carefully posed to hide the obvious weight of these glasses. Does any of the tech really matter if no one’s going to want these glasses on their face? There’s still a lot we don’t know about the Specs, including how they feel on our own faces, but on this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay try to figure out whether Specs have a chance to be worth wearing. What experiences do the glasses need to have to be worth the discomfort? Is four hours of battery a bug, or maybe a feature that will save your poor ears? When the device ships this fall, suffice to say we’ll have many things to try. After that, the hosts dig into Fox’s acquisition of Roku , and what it says about the state of entertainment that a content company would spend $22 billion on a smart TV operating system . …