{"id":730,"date":"2021-05-20T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/?p=730"},"modified":"2026-10-11T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:25:16","slug":"the-next-generation-of-spectacles-real-ar-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/2021\/05\/the-next-generation-of-spectacles-real-ar-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"The next generation of Spectacles: real AR glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, some news I never got around to posting here: DAQRI closed down in September 2019 and since November 2019 I have been a Software Engineering Manager at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snap.com\/\">Snap<\/a>, still in Vienna, leading the OS and graphics teams I helped build at DAQRI.<\/p>\n<p>And today there is finally something to show for it. At the Snap Partner Summit Evan Spiegel presented the <strong>next generation of Spectacles<\/strong>: Snap&#8217;s first glasses with real augmented reality displays. Dual waveguide displays, 6DoF tracking all in a frame of 134 grams. Their motion to photon latency is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>They are not for sale. This generation goes to AR creators so they can start building Lenses for glasses, and Snap can learn what it takes to make this work.<\/p>\n<p>Four years after the DAQRI Smart Glasses shipped, this is the device I have been waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, some news I never got around to posting here: DAQRI closed down in September 2019 and since November 2019 I have been a Software Engineering Manager at Snap, still in Vienna, leading the OS and graphics teams I helped build at DAQRI. And today there is finally something to show for it. At the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/2021\/05\/the-next-generation-of-spectacles-real-ar-glasses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The next generation of Spectacles: real AR glasses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/dominik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}