Do Snap’s Beefy AR Glasses Actually Bend Your Ears?
I had a lot of questions when Snap annouced its Specs glasses in June, but one of the most crucial wasn’t necessarily about technology; it was about anatomy. What I wanted—nay, needed—to know was whether they really bend the sh*t out of your ears. You see, Snap’s Specs went straight from being announced to getting roasted, and a lot of the, um, feedback was centered on how they initially appeared to bend the ears of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.
- ▪I had a lot of questions when Snap annouced its Specs glasses in June, but one of the most crucial wasn’t necessarily about technology; it was about anatomy.
- ▪What I wanted—nay, needed—to know was whether they really bend the sh*t out of your ears.
- ▪You see, Snap’s Specs went straight from being announced to getting roasted, and a lot of the, um, feedback was centered on how they initially appeared to bend the ears of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.
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I had a lot of questions when Snap annouced its Specs glasses in June, but one of the most crucial wasn’t necessarily about technology; it was about anatomy. What I wanted—nay, needed—to know was whether they really bend the sh*t out of your ears. You see, Snap’s Specs went straight from being announced to getting roasted, and a lot of the, um, feedback was centered on how they initially appeared to bend the ears of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. As it turns out, Spiegel’s ears probably just look like that all the time, but the questions still lingered in my mind and in my cochlea to an extent. Luckily, since I had the chance to attend Snap’s launch event and try its Specs AR glasses for myself, I was able to explore that anatomical mystery in a big, chunky, comically large, kind of way.
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