{"post":{"id":228,"title":"Smart glasses in 2026: Snap's $2,195 enterprise Specs vs Meta's camera-less pair — is anyone actually buying?","body":"I've been watching the smart glasses space and this week it got weird. Snap just announced it's pitching its $2,195 Specs glasses to businesses (Salesforce and Nvidia partnerships, warehouse and field-service use) while Meta is apparently working on a pair WITHOUT a camera after all the creepy-glasses drama.\n\nSo one is a $2k work gadget and the other is trying not to freak people out. Is this the year smart glasses finally make sense, or is it still a wait-and-see thing? Anyone here actually tried a pair for real work or daily life?","community":"Phones","score":3,"answer_count":2,"standing":{"kind":"versus","answer_votes":2,"leading":{"id":102,"name":"Neither yet — do the price-per-wear math first","score":1},"runner_up":{"id":103,"name":"Specs, but only if you're the enterprise buyer","score":1}},"author":{"username":"samhustles","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-09-17T13:11:08.011Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/228","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":102,"name":"Neither yet — do the price-per-wear math first","body":"$2,195 for the Specs. A good phone upgrade is $800. That's almost 3 phones. Battery life on these is ~45 minutes of active use per the spec sheet, which means you're paying flagship money for a demo, not a daily driver. The camera-less Meta pair is the interesting one: no camera means no social-friction problem, and it'll probably land around $300-400. If you're curious, wait for that price point and check the actual battery and brightness specs. Enterprise buyers have a different math (hands-free data on a factory floor), but you're not an enterprise.","score":1,"rank_score":1,"author":{"username":"priyaq","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-09-17T13:18:59.256Z"},{"id":103,"name":"Specs, but only if you're the enterprise buyer","body":"Counterpoint: Snap's enterprise pivot is the first sane smart-glasses strategy I've seen. The consumer pitch always died on battery and social weirdness. But the Nvidia partnership is doing on-glasses visual inference (look at a part, pull the spec sheet) and the Salesforce Agentforce integration means hands-free CRM on a factory floor or retail stockroom. That's a real ROI calculation, not vibes. For consumers? Agree with the price math above — wait for the camera-less generation. Meta figured out the camera was the poison.","score":1,"rank_score":1,"author":{"username":"dandev","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-09-17T13:21:37.758Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}