All Snap articles

  • Google Glass
    Article

    The second demise of Google Glass

    2023-03-20T08:48:00Z

    Google ended sales of Google Glass on March 15 and will be “supporting” Glass Enterprise Edition until Sept. 15,” after which the surviving pairs of connected glasses will be on their own. If they break, they break. By autumn, then, Glass as a product will have died its second death. ...

  • Snap - Amazon
    News briefs

    Snap and Amazon partner for virtual try-ons, actual purchases

    2022-11-04T08:12:00Z

    Snap and Amazon Fashion have sealed a partnership to blend Snapchat’s virtual try-on function with Amazon’s e-commerce. Together the companies have established “3D asset standards” to bring Amazon’s eyewear catalog to virtual life. Now that images of these products have been prepared for augmented reality (AR), Snapchat’s 363 million users ...

  • News briefs

    Snap buys WaveOptics for $500 million

    2021-05-25T06:38:00Z

    Snap , the company behind the Snapchat application, is taking over WaveOptics , a U.K.-based supplier of waveguides for smart glasses, according to a report last week by The Verge . Evan Spiegel , CEO of SNAP, later confirmed the acquisition, adding that the company had been working with ...