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Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:02 unnamed speaker With the specs, where you open around Christmas.
Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- ▶ 57:38 David Senra Just, I don't, you like Snapchat specs, anything, whatever it is, it's just like, he is differentiated.
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:46 unnamed speaker People are obsessed with the specs. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Andrew Ross Sorkin He did not bring his glasses on the set, but we're going to talk about those glasses in just a minute because I think that's been a big part of the story. 8 times in the scene
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
- ▶ 25:18 Alex Kantrowitz And then we see, you know, sort of the opposite side is the Snapchat specs release, which got a lot of people saying, um, maybe we don't, I mean, those were so bad that people were just, you don't have to comment.
Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 46:53 Molly O'Shea Like snap specs.
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:58 John Coogan But Meta's is, uh, 800 dollars, and Specs from Snap is 2200 dollars.
- ▶ 21:35 John Coogan We could be looking at, like, Iron Man four, snap spectacles, and the whole movie could revolve around Iron Man taking off the suit and only using the snap spectacles to stop Thanos for the fifth time in a row. 2 times in the scene
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:26:11 Ranjan Roy We'll get into the snap spectacles. 6 times in the scene
Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Snapchat comes out with new spectacles, and we take your audience questions.
- ▶ 1:00 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, listeners, if you are listening on the podcast, you'll see, uh, what, what you're, what we're looking at at the audience here is a image of Evan Spiegel on CNBC wearing the latest snap specs. 6 times in the scene
Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:29 unnamed speaker The Germinator says the Snap specs are official. 10 times in the scene
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 0:33 Evan Spiegel Uh, we're also on the verge of net income profitability, which is really exciting for us, especially as we invest really meaningfully, uh, in hardware and our specs glasses effort. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05 John Collison Why have specs been hard to get right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:33 Evan Spiegel So, I mean, I think, you know, if you look at the capability of, of glasses, at least when it comes to specs, right, what I actually would estimate is that a lot of the large screen use cases are the first to move, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:32 John Collison And so what has been hard in the development of specs, like batteries, screens, motion sickness, uh, you know, there's all these things people talk about in the context of AR and VR, and I'm curious, as you know, you're at the coalface,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 John Collison Do you think something similar happens with specs, where right now there's full VR, as you say, there's, like, smart glasses, uh, the very lightweight version, and then there's your specs, exactly, which are kind of between those two. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 John Collison What do you think the ramp up of specs look like? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:02 John Collison Do you think there's a similar adoption pattern for specs where there's one key, like, people buy it because you can get a full-size screen anywhere, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:12 Evan Spiegel Way to communicate on specs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:39 Evan Spiegel You know, some of the most important components for specs in the U S and in the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:43 Evan Spiegel Well, we can practice first with Specs.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 7:19 Evan Spiegel And so like, part of my imagination has been like, what if aliens are sending specs, sending these glasses to save people from, uh, you know, their lives that I think have become so oriented around, around screen.
- ▶ 20:26 David Senra I remember the first, uh, version of Spectacles.
- ▶ 46:49 Evan Spiegel And when we looked at how people were using specs at the time, it just wasn't 10 times better than pulling your phone out of your pocket. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:30 Evan Spiegel So I think if you look at, at specs and like what we've tried to do, even like your early experiences with the, with the brand, right?
- ▶ 58:04 David Senra Um, the, you said something, even the marketing, though, I think, like, you gotta give me credit to the marketing you guys were doing back in the day from the first Spectacles, where, like, there wasn't, like, a store you could just walk…
- ▶ 1:04:49 Evan Spiegel People are trying to understand what is this glasses thing they've been doing for 12 years that they're about to like launch to the world.
- ▶ 1:25:32 Evan Spiegel Uh, SnapLab really incubated a lot of the spectacles and specs stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:36 David Senra Specs working and will continue to, like, grow.
- ▶ 1:33:47 Evan Spiegel Yeah, so, so my Monday morning, for example, is like two to two and a half hours in the specs business going through the risks and dependencies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:44 Evan Spiegel I think Spex is probably my last company, I would, I would guess. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:00 Evan Spiegel And then I think, you know, the core specs business this year will mark the real beginning, you know, of the next chapter of that story as we transition from being, you know, a developer platform to a consumer product, which is really…
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:11 unnamed speaker They want to spin or shut down specs.
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 31:47 unnamed speaker Uh, uh, Evan Spiegel and Snap, Snap are saying that they might be spinning out specs, uh, and raising capital for it. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 52:40 M.G. Siegler Um, and again, others had tried, we talked about Google snap of course was, was an early mover with spectacles and still trying it.
Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
- ▶ 41:19 Ranjan Roy Uh, I also actually have Snap Spectacles, 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 7:41 unnamed speaker The maker of Snapchat said that its next generation glasses will be called Specs, breaking with the company's Spectacles branding that it used for previous. 2 times in the scene
Snap: Evan Spiegel
- ▶ 3:28 Guy Raz Lately, the company's decided to roll the dice on another hero product, Spectacles, augmented reality glasses that will bring much of the Snapchat experience right into your field of vision.
- ▶ 50:22 Evan Spiegel And we, you know, been working on wearables for a long time, you know, initially starting with the idea of, like, let's get the camera out of people's pockets and facing out into the world with our camera glasses called Spectacles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:40 Guy Raz Generation of your spectacles, which are these augmented reality glasses.
5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
- ▶ 44:33 Shaan Puri Spectacles. 2 times in the scene
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 47:33 Ethan Sutin Like, I don't know if you remember the spectacles.
How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- ▶ 6:18 Aaron Goldsmid And so the, the, the Ray Bans or, you know, even the spectacles, which was the, um, snap version that predated that was about how do you create the content in a way that doesn't take you out of the moment?
Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- ▶ 51:02 Ranjan Roy Yeah, I think, I, I mean, I told you a couple of weeks ago that I'm testing the Snapchat, the Snap Spectacles, which is their new augmented reality glasses that you can get as a developer, versus Orion from Facebook, the actual AR glasses… 2 times in the scene
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 8:04 Jason Calacanis He cribbed what, uh, Evan Spiegel did a couple of years ago with the Snapchat spectacles.
Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507)
- ▶ 22:22 Shaan Puri So I had V one of this and I've had the spectacles.
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:06 Harry Stebbings What, what happened to the snap glasses? 6 times in the scene
The Metaverse & How It Will Change the World with Matthew Ball
- ▶ 55:50 Matthew Ball Snapchat didn't design itself to be an AR camera and spectacles company.
a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
- ▶ 22:41 Rachel Kalmar I have the new Snap Spectacles, and I just collected a lot of interesting eye-level videos on my recent CryptoRome.
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 32:00 Ben Thompson Probably one of my more painful ones was, uh, like the Snapchat spectacles thing.
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down
- ▶ 18:51 Hank Leber He sold his, his company, uh, uh, Virgin Slabs to Snapchat, which became Snapchat Spectacles, and I think his mind is brilliant.
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:59 Casey Neistat And I think the trouble that we're seeing, certainly we saw at Beam, um, that they're seeing with spectacles, and that I think, um, every single live platform, none of which have truly succeeded yet, um, is because they don't address that…
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 14:13 Benedict Evans At the other extreme, you have kind of frictionless computing, I think, in devices like Alexa, the Amazon Echo, or Snapchat Spectacles, where you don't have any buttons, or any apps, or any intermediate steps. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- ▶ 21:28 Jason Brown The second is, is mobile first and who knows, maybe mobile first will, will transport to Snapchat spectacles or something like that.