- Snap fifth generation shows are receiving an important update
- Update includes new tools based on location and better hand tracking
- There are also new applications AR DOG WALKING AND BASKETBALL COACHING
While Meta, Google and Samsung occupy much of the air in the next -generation glasses space with their high plans, they are not the only players, and SNAP ensures that we do not forget that, with a set of new updates and health -related applications, they extend to their Snap Spectacles of fifth generation to celebrate six months since its launch.
SNAP shows are focused on the developer, so the changes focus on application manufacturing tools, such as unlocking the ability to create a new software that incorporates GPS, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and the compass header data, or are created for specific locations.
As an example of this in use, it is Navigatar of Utopia Lab, which facilitates the improved navigation between two places and pioneer pioneer, which allows you to create custom -arch courses to help keep the active people.
If you want to see these tools used in a more finished state, there is Quest Doggo, which takes your furry friend to AR. Snapml (Snap’s Machine Learning) can recognize your dog and create a visual overlap that tracks metrics such as the route you have taken and the stakeholder of your puppy, even gamifying the experience with virtual rewards.
Then there is the basketball coach who, as the name implies, is an AR basketball coach who can provide shooting drills and track his shots using Snapml to provide him with a live score update. This tool sounds ideal for incipient sports stars that wish to improve their game among their training sessions in person.
Beyond physical aptitude, Snap is also adding new hand monitoring capabilities, such as the phone detector, so glasses can recognize when a phone is and an improved ar keyboard for a more aerodynamic typing.
An exciting mockery for the future
For now, SNAP’s latest specifications are only available through its developer program, which costs $ 99 more taxes per month (or € 110, including VAT in the EU, around £ 90 / au $ 190) unless you get an educational discount of 50%. But that does not mean that we cannot get excited about the software that is being done today.
Intelligent consumer glasses are approaching (for example, the target orion goggles are expected to be launched in 2027, and I am sure they will not be alone), but it is of no use to have an impressive next generation XR technology if it cannot do anything exciting.
These developer kits and the first applications should mean that when technology is deployed to the public, there will be a series of uses for our smart glasses in the box the first day that will make them feel like a portable device that is worth it, and not a fashion accessory too expensive.
Obviously, we will have to wait and see what Snap, Meta, Google and the rest have the sleeves when the next -generation ar glasses make their consumer debut, but this update excites me an XR future that cannot arrive soon.
