Smart glasses are officially here

智能眼镜正式问世

Today, Explained

2026-07-09

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There's a race to get smart glasses on your face. But privacy and security concerns are freaking people out. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Victoria Song, senior reviewer for The Verge, models several pairs of smart glasses. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Remember Snapchat?

  • The app best known for being the place to send disappearing photos and videos to your friends?

  • Well, Snapchat was back in the news recently, but this time it was not about disappearing photos and videos.

  • It was about smart glasses that you put and keep on your face.

  • Snapchat was trying to get in on the game with a pair of black, horn-rimmed-looking spectacles.

  • Think...

  • The pair that the old man in Up wears, but like three times thicker and with a price tag of $2,195.

  • Photos of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing his specs, that's what they're called by the way,

  • specs, were all over the internet and not in a good way.

  • People were laughing.

  • And they laughed all the way over the stock market where Snap took a hit.

  • But...

  • As you're going to hear on Today Explained from Box, Snap's playing the long game with smart glasses,

  • and the rest of big tech is too.

  • Smart glasses are officially here, so we're going to talk about them and worry about our privacy on the show today.

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