- Snap fifth generation shows obtain a major update
- The update includes new tools based on location and better hand monitoring
- There are also new applications for chiens and basketball shortcuts
While Meta, Google and Samsung take a lot of air in the new generation AR glasses space with their high plans, they are not the only players – and Snap ensures that we do not forget that, with a series of new updates and health -related applications since their launch of the fifth generation to celebrate six months since their launch.
SNAP shows are focused on developers, so changes are focused on application creation tools, such as unlocking the possibility of creating new software that integrates GPS, the global navigation system (GNSS) and compass header data, or are designed for specific locations.
As an example of this use, there is Utopia Lab Navigatar, which facilitates improved navigation between two places, and Path Pioneer, which allows you to create personalized RA walking lessons to help keep people active.
If you want to see these tools used in a more finished state, there is Doggo Quest, which brings your friend to fur in the RA. Snapml (Snap’s Machine Learning) can recognize your dog and create a visual superposition that follows the measures such as the route you have taken and the number of steps in your puppy – even gaming the experience of virtual rewards.
Then there is a basketball coach who, as the name suggests, is an AR basketball coach who can provide you with shooting exercises and follow your shots using Snapml to provide you with a live score update. This tool seems ideal for emerging sport stars who want to improve their game between their training sessions in person.
Beyond the fitness, Snap also adds new hand monitoring capacities such as the phone detector – so that the glasses can recognize when you have a phone – and an improved keyboard for a more rationalized typing.
An exciting teasing for the future
For the moment, the latest Snap specifications are only available through its developer program, which costs $ 99 more tax per month (or € 110, including VAT in the EU, around £ 90 £ / 190), unless you get an educational discount of 50%. But that does not mean that we cannot enthron ourselves that software is made for them today.
Intelligent general public glasses arrive (for example, Meta’s Orion AR glasses should be launched in 2027, and I am sure they will not be alone), but there is no point in having an impressive new generation XR technology if it can do nothing exciting.
These developer kits and the first applications should mean that when technology is deployed to the public, there will be a multitude of uses for our smart glasses on the first day that will make them feel like a valid laptop – and not a too expensive fashion accessory.
We will obviously have to wait and see what Snap, Meta, Google and the rest have in their sleeves when new generation AR glasses will make their consumer debut, but this update excited for an XR future which cannot come early enough.
